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Black Student Power in Boston

January 9, 2018January 13, 2018 Tess Bundy #StudentActivismForum, black protest, Black Studies, Boston, education, student activism, youth

*This post is part of our online forum on Student Activism. The story of the “Boston busing crisis” of the 1970s dominates

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Rap Dreams in South Central: An Interview with Jooyoung Lee

January 6, 2018January 10, 2018 Darryl Robertson #HipHopSeries, hip hop, music, Performance

In today’s post, Darryl Robertson, a graduate student at Fordham University, interviews Jooyoung Lee about his new book, Blowin’ Up: Rap Dreams in South Central, which

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Moving Slave Narratives from Film to Comics

December 22, 2017December 29, 2017 Nathan Moore comic books, film, Racial Violence, slavery, violence

Comics might not be the first place you’d think to go to for profound meditations on complex topics like war,

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Mainstreaming Black Power: A New Book on the Black Power Movement

December 11, 2017December 15, 2017 Julie Hawks Black Panther Party, Black Power

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Slavery, the Plantation Myth, and Alternative Facts

December 6, 2017December 14, 2017 Tyler Parry slavery, South

Earlier this year, NBC journalist Chuck Todd pressed  the Counselor to the US President, Kellyanne Conway, to explain spurious claims made

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