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Mary E. Pleasant: Reshaping the Landscape of Segregation in California

October 4, 2023September 19, 2023 E. Nicole Vines Black women, California, Jim Crow, Mary E. Pleasant, segregation

Between the 1830s and 1890s, the Colored Conventions Movement transformed Black political organizing across the US. Of the thirty states

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Black Women’s Activism through History and Poetry

October 2, 2023September 7, 2023 Cathleen D. Cahill Black women, Carrie Williams Clifford, Club women, freedom, poetry

“Somehow, we’ve weathered and witnessed a nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished.” -Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb  Those

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Arturo Schomburg, Black Studies, and Social Change

September 28, 2023September 15, 2023 DJ Polite Arturo Schomburg, Black History, Black Studies, John Henrik Clarke

Around 1930, a fifteen-year-old John Henrik Clarke travelled to New York City, New York, anxious to meet Arturo Schomburg at

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Hope, Faith, and Metaphor in African American History

September 25, 2023August 31, 2023 Nico Slate African American history, Barack Obama, Black History, History, Martin Luther King Jr.

In November 2022, the Chief Justice of India, D.Y. Chandrachud, cited Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. while encouraging his fellow

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African Americans and the State Militia

September 22, 2023September 7, 2023 Gregory Mixon antebellum, citizenship, Civil War, military, Militia

What is the historical relationship between African Americans and the state militia? Today, some may believe the militia to be

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