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Movie Theaters, the Urban North, and Policing the Color Line

December 5, 2023November 30, 2023 Alyssa Lopez film, Jim Crow, police brutality, Resistance

While America’s urban areas witnessed a massive boom in the popularity of motion pictures and moviegoing in the early twentieth

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The Black Left and Political Repression

October 30, 2023October 29, 2023 Lucien Baskin Black Left, CBFS Interview, interview, Radicalism

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

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On the Tragic Death of Tyre Nichols

January 30, 2023January 30, 2023 Hettie Williams black lives matter, police violence

  Don’t Cry Don’t shed a tear The time I shared with you will always be And when I’m gone,

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Haiti and US Policing

September 3, 2021September 2, 2021 Willie Mack African Diaspora, black politics, Haiti

The recent assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Möise and the power vacuum he left have deep roots in United States

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Gloria Richardson and Black Women’s Intellectual History

July 19, 2021July 19, 2021 Robert Greene II Black women, Civil Rights Movement

Gloria Richardson passed away on July 15, 2021, at the age of 99. Tributes have already poured in for the

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