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Striving Toward Freedom and Black Pittsburgh

February 6, 2023February 4, 2023 Hettie Williams #AAIHSRoundtable, #CanaanDim, Activism

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

February 1, 2023January 31, 2023 Anique John black lives matter, Racial Violence, 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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The Untethered Tongue: Lifting the Black Feminine Voice in Jazz

December 16, 2022December 27, 2022 Sandra Booker Billie Holiday, jazz, music, Nina Simone, Women

What is freedom? Freedom is existing unrestrained in thoughts, actions, and achievements but is not absolved from the world’s reactions

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Toward the Preservation of Black Joy in Public Memory

October 18, 2022October 13, 2022 Jessy Ohl, Shalonda Capers, and Caran Kennedy Racial Violence, Resistance

Representations of Black experiences remain frustratingly narrow in public commemoration efforts across the U.S. For many decades, and especially in

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Fannie Lou Hamer and American Democracy

October 5, 2022September 29, 2022 Peniel E. Joseph #UntilIAmFree, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, democracy, Fannie Lou Hamer

This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Until I Am Free. Fannie Lou Hamer, the sharecropper

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