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Civil Rights and Healthcare: Remembering Simkins v. Cone (1963)

February 4, 2017February 7, 2017 Ezelle Sanford III civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, law

Upon her release from L. Richardson Memorial Hospital’s maternity ward in Greensboro, North Carolina, my grandmother, Ann Wilson Scales, walked

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“Reflections Unheard”: A New Film on Black Women and Civil Rights

January 19, 2017March 14, 2017 Michael T. Barry Jr. #FilmFeatures, Black women, film series

This post is part of a new blog series that announces the release of new films in African American History

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Racial Violence and America’s Civil Rights Century: An Interview with Jason Morgan Ward

November 14, 2016November 12, 2016 Stephen G. Hall black politics, Black women, Jim Crow, lynching, Mississippi, NAACP

In today’s guest post, Stephen G. Hall interviews  Jason Morgan Ward about his new book, Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence and

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Voting Is Not A Right of U.S. Citizens: Revisiting the 1866 Civil Rights Act

November 6, 2016November 3, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi civil rights

This piece was originally published in AHA Today, a blog of the American Historical Association, as “The Promise and Peril of

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Afro-Politics and Civil Society in Brazil: An Interview with Kwame Dixon

November 5, 2016November 5, 2016 Jaime Alves black politics, Brazil, electoral politics

In today’s guest post, Professor Jaime Alves, ‎Assistant Professor of Anthropology at CUNY Staten Island, interviews Professor Kwame Dixon about

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