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Revolution and Repression: A Framework for African American History

August 21, 2018August 27, 2018 Brandon Byrd

*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by blogger Brandon

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Teenage Feminism Decades Before “Girl Power”

August 17, 2018August 27, 2018 Kera Lovell black feminism, student activism

*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by historian Kera Lovell as

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More Than a Song: Giving Aretha a Little R-E-S-P-E-C-T

August 16, 2018August 27, 2018 Crystal R. Sanders Memphis, music, social justice

No matter whether one came of age in the sixties, the seventies, the eighties, or even the nineties, Aretha Franklin

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The Legacy of Berkeley High School’s Black Student Union

August 14, 2018August 16, 2018 Aaron Fountain Activism

*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by historian Aaron Fountain as

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Black Public History in Chicago

July 30, 2018August 8, 2018 Betsy Schlabach Activism, archives, Black Arts Movement, black politics, Black Power, Chicago, civil rights, museums, Public History

As part of the research for his book Black Public History in Chicago: Civil Rights Activism From World War II

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