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Head Start and Mississippi’s Black Freedom Struggle: An Interview with Crystal R. Sanders

July 18, 2016July 16, 2016 Keisha N. Blain Mississippi

This month, I interviewed Crystal R. Sanders about her new book, A Chance for Change: Head Start and Mississippi’s Black

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Top Five in Bad Times (+ Bonus Track)

July 12, 2016July 12, 2016 Jessica Marie Johnson #BlackLivesMatter, digital media

This has been an especially difficult few weeks for those with any investment in social justice, black families and black

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Remembering Muhammad Ali: Asiatic Black Man

July 1, 2016July 1, 2016 Garrett Felber black nationalism, Muhammad Ali, Nation of Islam

With the passing of Muhammad Ali – boxing’s greatest pugilist, most electric persona, and fiercest champion for racial justice –

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Black History in the Comics

June 27, 2016June 27, 2016 Paul Hébert Ta-Nehisi Coates

I have been reading comics my whole life, but it was only recently that I attended my first comics gathering,

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Muhammad Ali, Freedom Road, and the Legacy of Reconstruction

June 24, 2016June 23, 2016 Guest Poster Muhammad Ali, reconstruction

Today we’re featuring a guest post by Robert Bland, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University

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