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Galvanizing the American Public, ANC and Anti-Apartheid

April 24, 2024April 21, 2024 Jessica Ann Levy #SouthAfricanApartheid, African Diaspora, black internationalism, Black Power

This post is part of our forum on the “The End of South African Apartheid Anniversary.” This year marks thirty years

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Requiem for a Howard University Student

April 4, 2024March 27, 2024 Menika Dirkson Black women, Gender

On February 4, 1958, eighteen-year-old Gloria Adelaide Jordan began her Freshman year of college at Howard University to pursue a

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Black Is, Black Ain’t: “Unnatural by Whose Standard?”

April 2, 2024March 26, 2024 Tiffany Pennamon black feminism, LGBT, race, sexuality

Representations of Blackness in film and other visual mediums have often presented Black identity in ways that are limiting and

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The Harmfulness of Black Codes in the State of Alabama

March 29, 2024March 28, 2024 Daphne Calhoun #BlackCodes, #BooksArchivesMonuments, reconstruction

This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.” When the Civil War

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The Problem with Baltimore

March 22, 2024March 21, 2024 Anthony Smooth police brutality, racism, slavery, urban history

In 2015, Harvard economists Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren did a study on how the socioeconomic conditions of the neighborhoods

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