Search Results for: civil rights movement

The Anti-Black City: A New Book on Black Urban Life in Brazil

February 12, 2018February 16, 2018 Keisha N. Blain Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, carceral state, police brutality, police violence, policing

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Black Charleston and the Battle over Confederate Statues

January 29, 2018February 2, 2018 Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders Charleston, racism, slavery, South Carolina, white supremacy

On January 9, 2018, the Charleston City Council deferred voting on a proposed new plaque for the John C. Calhoun

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The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities

January 22, 2018January 30, 2018 Lavelle Porter documentary, education, film, student activism, W.E.B. Du Bois

One of the most painful and haunting images that I recall from Stanley Nelson’s documentary, Tell Them We Are Rising:

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Josephine Butler and Environmental Activism in Washington, DC

January 13, 2018January 20, 2018 Jaimee A. Swift Black women, environmentalism, social justice

The first time I heard about Josephine Butler was when I stepped into the building named after her––the Josephine Butler

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Teenage Feminism Decades before “Girl Power”

January 12, 2018January 15, 2018 Kera Lovell #StudentActivismForum, black feminism, student activism

*This post is part of our online forum on Student Activism. As civil disobedience in schools escalated in the postwar era, teenage girls

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