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Radio Journalism and Civil Rights

January 13, 2022January 12, 2022 Bala James Baptiste black nationalism, Chicago, civil rights, journalism, New Orleans, Radio

The first radio stations that targeted all of their programming toward African Americans in Chicago and New Orleans disseminated different types

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The Tears of Carl Lewis

September 20, 2021September 19, 2021 E. James West black protest, race

A few weeks ago marked the 30th anniversary of perhaps the greatest track and field duel of all time. On

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Remembering, Rethinking, and Renaming the Watts Rebellion

August 13, 2021August 11, 2021 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. black protest, Resistance

Stop referring to what happened in Los Angeles from August 11- 16, 1965 as the Watts Riot. Call the events

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On the Life and Legacy of Black Journalist Louis Lomax

May 10, 2021June 5, 2021 Joshua Clark Davis Black Power, Civil Rights Movement, journalism, Nation of Islam

We still have far too few histories of Black journalists. Even as biographers have written on Alex Haley, Ethel Payne,

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The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS

April 6, 2021April 18, 2021 Nikita Shepard Activism, Black Queers, book review, HIV-AIDS, LGBT, medical racism, race, racism, Resistance

The devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic over the past year has intensified scrutiny of racial health inequities in the

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