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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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Occupied Territory: A New Book about Policing and Black Chicago

June 5, 2019June 3, 2019 J. T. Roane Chicago, police brutality, police violence, prisons, repression, Resistance

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Challenging Jim Crow in New York City

May 1, 2019May 6, 2019 AAIHS Editors civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow, New York

Conversations in BlackFreedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated by Jeanne

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Historians and the Black Freedom Struggle in the North

April 1, 2019August 12, 2022 Jeanne Theoharis #NationWithinANation, Activism, black politics, Black Power, race, Resistance

*This post is part of our online roundtable celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the publication of Komozi Woodard’s A Nation Within a Nation

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Mapping Resistance to Surveillance

March 29, 2019August 12, 2022 Dan Berger carceral state, mass incarceration

As pundits await the release of the full Mueller Report and speculate about its final contents, the FBI enjoys greater

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