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Remembering, Rethinking, and Renaming the Watts Rebellion

August 13, 2021August 11, 2021 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. black protest, Resistance

Stop referring to what happened in Los Angeles from August 11- 16, 1965 as the Watts Riot. Call the events

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How Hollywood Has Ignored the Haitian Revolution

July 16, 2021July 15, 2021 Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall Black film, film, Haiti, Haitian Revolution

African Americans have long been interested in Haiti.1 Decades before the so-called “Haitian turn” of the twenty-first century in US

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Celebrating Gospel Music After the Civil Rights Era

May 20, 2021June 5, 2021 Keiara Price religion, spirituality

Late in March 2021, Black Twitter became enraptured by a leaked call between critically acclaimed gospel artist, Kirk Franklin, and

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Universities and Cities: An Interview with Davarian Baldwin

May 13, 2021June 5, 2021 Robert Greene II education, gentrification, urban history

This is an interview with Robert Greene II, the lead associate editor of Black Perspectives, and Davarian Baldwin. Baldwin is the Paul

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On the Life and Legacy of Black Journalist Louis Lomax

May 10, 2021June 5, 2021 Joshua Clark Davis Black Power, Civil Rights Movement, journalism, Nation of Islam

We still have far too few histories of Black journalists. Even as biographers have written on Alex Haley, Ethel Payne,

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