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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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Gen Z Hip Hop, Rod Wave, and Black Masculinity

June 17, 2021June 17, 2021 Mickell Carter Activism, art, Gender, music, Resistance

Early this year, rapper Rod Wave’s album, Soul Fly, entered the music scene with a sharp analysis of contemporary Black manhood.

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George Floyd and the Global Fight for Black Lives

May 26, 2021June 5, 2021 Mickell Carter Black Europe, black internationalism, blackness, police brutality, police violence

The murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, acted as a catalyst for Black Lives Matter protests around the

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Black Resistance from Augusta to BLM

May 11, 2021June 5, 2021 John Hayes and Nefertiti Robinson Black Power, Civil Rights Movement, police brutality, police violence

When our work began in December 2018, we sought to confront misinformation and erasure surrounding the “riot” of May 11-12,

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The Black History Behind the Country’s Oldest Women’s Center

May 3, 2021June 5, 2021 Say Burgin feminism, housing

This spring, the Cambridge Women’s Center, the US’s oldest women’s center, celebrated its 50th anniversary. Public commemorations included press attention

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