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On Government Handouts: Sports Stadiums or Schools?

May 31, 2017June 5, 2017 Guest Poster education, education reform, sports

*Co-authored by Justin Gomer and Jackson Hille This March, the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (NFL) finalized a

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Ideas in Unexpected Places: Why a Marketplace Intellectual Life Still Matters

May 23, 2017May 25, 2017 Davarian Baldwin #AAIHS2017, black intellectual history, conference

This post is a condensed version of Davarian Baldwin‘s keynote address at the 2017 AAIHS conference at Vanderbilt University. ***

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A Case for Reparations at the University of Chicago

May 22, 2017December 2, 2017 Guest Poster Chicago, slavery, University of Chicago

Julia Leakes yearned to be reunited with her family.  In 1853, her two sisters showed up for sale along with

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The Young Historians Project in Britain, Part II: An Interview with Aleema Gray and Amelia Francis

May 20, 2017May 23, 2017 Tiffany Florvil Activism, African Diaspora, Blacks in Britain, Caribbean

This month I interviewed Aleema Gray and Amelia Francis about their involvement with the Young Historians Project, a non-profit organization

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The Art of Domination: On Decolonizing the Curriculum

May 16, 2017May 18, 2017 Jordanna Matlon education, education reform, racism, teaching

Those professors among us who teach from the perspective of the oppressed are often tasked with un-teaching what our students

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