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Floyd McKissick’s Soul City: An Interview with Thomas Healy

November 15, 2021November 15, 2021 Joshua Clark Davis black politics, Civil Rights Movement, race

In 1969, Black Power advocate Floyd McKissick announced plans to develop Soul City, a multiracial community in rural Warren County,

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Critical Race Theory and the Misappropriating of Martin Luther King, Jr.

September 30, 2021September 29, 2021 Tyler Parry black intellectual history, Civil Rights Movement, education

Martin Luther King, Jr. Speaking Against the Vietnam War, St. Paul Campus, University of Minnesota, April 27, 1967 (Wikimedia Commons)

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Fannie Lou Hamer’s Legacy: An Interview with Keisha N. Blain

September 27, 2021September 27, 2021 Nicole M. Gipson Activism, black feminism, black protest

This is an interview with Dr. Nicole Gipson, an elected Early Career Member of the Royal Historical Society of the

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Race and the Cost of Public Goods

September 24, 2021September 23, 2021 John D. Fairfield capitalism, racism, white supremacy

Children at Kosciusko Swimming Pool, Brooklyn, New York, 1970 (Wikimedia Commons)   In The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs

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Martin Luther King, Jr. and 1619

September 22, 2021September 22, 2021 Robert Greene II black protest, civil rights, race

Martin Luther King, Jr. being Interviewed, with Coretta Scott King next to him, October 20, 1965 (Wikimedia Commons)   Throughout

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