Golden-Era Rap Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition
This post is part of our forum on “Hip Hop at 50.” Hip hop’s “golden era,” the period from 1987
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Black Resistance and Lynching Memory: An Interview with Mari N. Crabtree Part II
Today’s post is the second part of Black Perspectives’ regular contributor, Menika Dirkson interview of Mari N. Crabtree on her
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Black Los Angeles and the LAPD in the Early 1960s
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and other city officials could have prevented the Watts Rebellion in August 1965 had they addressed the concerns
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Striving Toward Freedom and Black Pittsburgh
This post is part of our online roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan, Dim and Far. Canaan, Dim and Far:
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Tyre Nichols and the Complexity of Institutional Racism
Racial injustice, institutional racism, and police brutality are painful aspects of our society that we have not and should never
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