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The Missing Black Women in Denmark Vesey’s Conspiracy

August 30, 2022August 30, 2022 Karen Cook Bell Black women, Racial Violence, Resistance, slavery

The Denmark Vesey conspiracy transformed how enslavers viewed free and unfree men who labored in the cities and countryside of

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Documenting Environmental Racism

August 26, 2022August 21, 2022 E. James West DOCUMERICA, environment, Environmental Racism, photography, urban history

There’s a good reason why I’ve focused on the work of Chicago-based Black photojournalist John H. White during the first

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“The Streets Belong to Us”: An Author’s Response

August 22, 2022August 19, 2022 Anne Gray Fischer #AAIHSRoundtable, #StreetsBelongToUs, Black women, sexuality

This post is part of our online roundtable on Anne Gray Fischer’s The Streets Belong to Us I am a daily

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The History of Sexual Policing

August 19, 2022August 12, 2022 Charlotte Rosen #StreetsBelongToUs, Black women, carceral state, Police, prisons, sexual violence

This post is part of our online roundtable on Anne Gray Fischer’s The Streets Belong to Us A few years back,

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Earl Anthony and the Black Panther Party

August 11, 2022August 11, 2022 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. black nationalism, Black Panthers, COINTELPRO, FBI, Maulana Karenga

The Black Panther Party was founded on October 15, 1966, with Earl Anthony joining the following April. His 1990 book,

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