“One Continuous Graveyard”: Emancipation and the Birth of the Professional Police Force
This is a guest post by Keri Leigh Merritt, a historian of the 19th c. American South. She received her
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The “N-word”: Finding Clarity in a Redundant Debate
The following is a guest post co-authored by Tyler Parry and Clayton Finn. Parry is Assistant Professor of African American
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Black History in the Comics
I have been reading comics my whole life, but it was only recently that I attended my first comics gathering,
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Remembering Phillis Wheatley
In my last post, I commented on a specific newspaper piece from the May 18, 1827 edition of Freedom’s Journal,
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Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome is a Racist Idea
For a generation of open-minded Americans, the original Roots miniseries in 1977 uprooted fields of racist ideas of backward Africa,
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