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Radio Journalism and Civil Rights

January 13, 2022January 12, 2022 Bala James Baptiste black nationalism, Chicago, civil rights, journalism, New Orleans, Radio

The first radio stations that targeted all of their programming toward African Americans in Chicago and New Orleans disseminated different types

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What Civil Rights Acts: The Times-Picayune’s Editorial Silence on Civil Rights

December 2, 2021December 1, 2021 Bala Baptiste desegregation, Editorial, integration, Louisiana, New Orleans, Newspapers

The New Orleans morning daily newspaper, The Times-Picayune, during the 11-year period between 1957 and 1968, failed to publish a

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Domestic Workers and the Civil Rights Movement

September 2, 2021September 1, 2021 Ashley Everson Activism, Black women, Civil Rights Movement

In July 1971, over six hundred domestic workers from thirty different cities gathered together in Washington D.C. at the first

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Celebrating Gospel Music After the Civil Rights Era

May 20, 2021June 5, 2021 Keiara Price religion, spirituality

Late in March 2021, Black Twitter became enraptured by a leaked call between critically acclaimed gospel artist, Kirk Franklin, and

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A Black Brazilian Immigrant and the Struggle Civil Rights in the U.S.

January 26, 2021January 26, 2021 Lloyd Belton Activism, African Diaspora, black protest, Gender, race, Resistance

Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and Sarah Parker Remond are usually the

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