Search Results for: civil rights movement

Ties that Bind? Emerging Race-Conscious Alliances Between African Immigrants and Black Americans

July 7, 2020July 5, 2020 Drew Smith Activism, African Diaspora, black politics, police violence

The atrocity of George Floyd’s killing by police has stoked anger over systemic racism while also helping redraw geographic, demographic,

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Losing Willie McGee

July 6, 2020July 5, 2020 Denise Lynn Politics, racism, white supremacy

The toll a failed political campaign takes on an individual can be devastating, none more so than when a life

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Power to the People: An Interview with Paul Ortiz and Johanna Fernandez

July 2, 2020June 28, 2020 AAIHS Editors African Diaspora, black nationalism, Black Panther Party, Puerto Rican history, Resistance

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

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Denying the Franchise as Incitement to Genocide

June 24, 2020June 21, 2020 Denise Lynn civil rights, race, racism

In 1951, William Patterson and the Civil Rights Congress presented a 238-page document to the United Nations accusing the United

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Civic Memory in a Radical Bristol: Edward Colston and Black Lives Matter 

June 17, 2020June 16, 2020 Adam Woodhouse black lives matter, black protest

On Sunday June 7,  2020, a Black man climbed up onto a plinth in the center of the British city of

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