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“A Troubled Past” and the Meanings of Breaking the Law

August 25, 2015August 25, 2015 Christopher Bonner

In early August, St. Louis County Police shot eighteen-year-old Tyrone Harris, Jr. amidst an outbreak of violence during protests in

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Fighting for Freedom: Free Women of African Descent in New Orleans and Beyond

April 12, 2015April 12, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson black protest, black rebellion, Civil War, freedom, reconstruction, slavery

Delivered at the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival on Saturday, March 28, 2015 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the panel

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The “Black Republic:” The Meaning of Haitian Independence before the Occupation

February 13, 2015February 13, 2015 Brandon Byrd

This is the second entry in a series on the centennial of the U.S. occupation of Haiti. The introduction to

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Black Women, Agency, and the Civil War

September 22, 2017November 1, 2017 Karen Cook Bell Black women, emancipation, reconstruction, slavery, W.E.B. Du Bois

Throughout much of the twentieth century historians framed the Civil War as a political and military driven historical process, which

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“Thinking Black” Against the Carceral State: Angela Davis and Prisoner Defense Campaigns

June 3, 2017June 7, 2017 Dan Berger Angela Davis, Black radicalism, mass incarceration

The stirring directive sounded like the denouement of a legal thriller: “I am going to ask you, if you will,

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