Race, Reconstruction, and Reparations
This is a guest post by Keri Leigh Merritt, a historian of the 19th c. American South. She received her
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Reconsidering Malcolm X and Islam
This is a guest post by Garrett Felber, a scholar of 20th century African American history at the University of Michigan
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Last April, I wrote a post for this blog, entitled “Why did Nat Tuner ‘confess‘?” I argued that Turner’s goal
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Today we celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., a man of immeasurable courage and vision. We
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One of the stranger stories that broke with the new year was the report (now discredited) of pop star Beyoncé writing
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