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Black Reconstruction in the Twenty-First Century

October 24, 2023October 18, 2023 Lacey P. Hunter 19th Century, American Civil War, American Democracy, citizenship, Civil Rights Movement, Voting Rights

  Peniel E. Joseph, The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Basic Books,

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The Life and Activism of Rosa Parks: A CBFS Interview

October 5, 2023September 22, 2023 Lucien Baskin Black Women's History, CBFS, Civil Rights Movement, interview, Rosa Parks

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

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Arturo Schomburg, Black Studies, and Social Change

September 28, 2023September 15, 2023 DJ Polite Arturo Schomburg, Black History, Black Studies, John Henrik Clarke

Around 1930, a fifteen-year-old John Henrik Clarke travelled to New York City, New York, anxious to meet Arturo Schomburg at

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Philadelphia’s Fight Against Gun Violence, Poverty, and Crime

August 31, 2023August 11, 2023 Menika Dirkson Philadelphia, violence

In 1969, the New York Times named Philadelphia the “gang capital” of America when the city had the highest rates

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Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners

August 30, 2023August 4, 2023 Taylor Prescott book review, Jim Crow, violence

Margaret Burnham’s By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022) excavates little-known accounts of violence

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