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Brooklyn Stands With Selma

January 16, 2015January 24, 2015 Brian Purnell

The following excerpt comes from the conclusion of my book, Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: The Congress

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From the Edmund Pettus Bridge to W. Florissant Ave: A Review of Selma

January 9, 2015 Kellie Carter Jackson

There are few moments when you can watch a film and feel as though its speaking to the exact moment

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“…they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect…”

January 2, 2015January 4, 2015 Noelle Trent police brutality

“They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to

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Confronting the Complexities of Black Social Movements

July 16, 2025July 2, 2025 Shannon King #FromRightstoLives, black lives matter, pedagogy, sexual violence

This post is part of our online roundtable on Françoise N. Hamlin and Charles W. McKinney Jr.’s From Rights to Lives.

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Black History Is Freedom History

July 14, 2025July 2, 2025 Wesley Hogan #FromRightstoLives, black lives matter, Civil Rights Movement, SNCC

This post is part of our online roundtable on Françoise N. Hamlin and Charles W. McKinney Jr.’s From Rights to Lives.

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