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Black Panther, White Supremacy, and Double Consciousness

March 17, 2018March 21, 2018 Michael D. Kennedy #BlackPanther, #comicsandrace, W.E.B. Du Bois, white supremacy

*This post is part of our new blog series on The World of the Black Panther. This series, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter

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History, Memory, and the Power of Black Radio

March 16, 2018March 19, 2018 Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders Chicago, slavery

Between 1948 and 1950, a radio series called Destination Freedom aired on WMAQ, a local Chicago NBC station. Richard Durham

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Police Violence and the Debate Over Gun Control

March 15, 2018March 19, 2018 Nicole Jackson police brutality, police violence, policing, Racial Violence

In the aftermath of the Parkland shooting, the National Rifle Association (NRA) entered the news as their successful lobbying of

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Death and Memory From Mississippi to Chicago

March 13, 2018April 6, 2018 Guy Emerson Mount Chicago, reparations, slavery, University of Chicago

My grandfather died on Christmas Eve. I never knew him, but his legend still hangs over me. Even though I’m named

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Black Panther, Surveillance, and Racial Profiling

March 10, 2018March 15, 2018 Matthew Teutsch #BlackPanther, #comicsandrace, race, racism

*This post is part of our new blog series on The World of the Black Panther. This series, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter

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