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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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North of Dixie: A New Book on Civil Rights Photography Beyond the South

November 1, 2016January 1, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi

This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African

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The NBA, Civil Rights, and Political Activism in Sports

October 26, 2016October 26, 2016 Derrick E. White Colin Kaepernick

We are only days from the opening tip of the 2016-2017 NBA season. Many fans are looking forward to watching

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