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Before the Central Park Five, There Was the Trenton Six

July 3, 2019June 21, 2019 Denise Lynn civil rights, Communism, Communist Party, Jim Crow, NAACP, police brutality, police violence, prisons, race, racism

The four-part docuseries When They See Us, directed by Ava DuVernay, has brought attention to the notorious case of the Central

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“Swinging While I’m Singing”: Spike Lee, Public Enemy, and the Message in the Music

June 24, 2019June 22, 2019 Mark Anthony Neal Black film, black politics, film series, hip hop, music, police brutality, race, Resistance, women in film

“1989, a number, another summer, sound of the funky drummer” —Public Enemy, “Fight the Power” The scene may be the

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Inculcated Forgetfulness at a New England Port

June 20, 2019June 13, 2019 Lise Breen abolitionism, Activism, black politics, black protest, Civil War, Frederick Douglass, Post-Civil War, race, racism, slave trade, slavery, South

In the fall of 1865, Frederick Douglass riveted a small New England audience for more than two hours. Long forgotten,

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Overseer Violence on Eighteenth Century Plantations

June 5, 2019May 24, 2019 Robert D. Bland book review, Racial Violence, slavery, South

For scholars of eighteenth-century North American slavery, the rise of the plantation-complex grounds many of the field’s central questions. When

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The Racial Geography of Universities

June 3, 2019May 30, 2019 Celeste Henery black intellectual history, black politics, education, geography, pedagogy, race, Resistance, teaching

What does it mean to learn how to read a place? This question silently guides the Racial Geography Tour of

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