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Dr. Joanne Martin’s Great Blacks in Wax Museum

October 23, 2023October 22, 2023 Menika Dirkson Black women, curation, education, material culture, museums

Across America, The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum is known for highlighting unvarnished accounts of African American History from

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Black Women’s Activism through History and Poetry

October 2, 2023September 7, 2023 Cathleen D. Cahill Black women, Carrie Williams Clifford, Club women, freedom, poetry

“Somehow, we’ve weathered and witnessed a nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished.” -Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb  Those

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Environmental Racism in South Carolina

September 29, 2023September 22, 2023 E. James West DOCUMERICA, environmental justice, photography, race, RaceandDocumerica, racism, Sea Islands

The American metropolis and perceptions of the so-called “urban crisis” have loomed large in previous installments of my Race and

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Global Blackness: More than Strangers, More than Citizens

September 14, 2023September 7, 2023 April J. Mayes #TranslatingBlackness, Haiti, Immigration, Racial Capitalism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness. There she stood, in the middle of a dirt

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The Times-Picayune’s Historical Use of the N-Word

September 8, 2023August 25, 2023 Bala Baptiste Jim Crow, MEDIA, Newspapers, white supremacy

The News Orleans daily newspaper the Times-Picayune, since its founding on January 25, 1837, and throughout 1914, when it merged

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