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Intersectional Critiques of the Criminalization of Black Girls

January 24, 2024January 21, 2024 Lindsey E. Jones Black women, education, Gender

This article was originally published on May 30, 2016. Twenty-first-century Black women advocating on behalf of Black girls are building

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Why did Nat Turner “confess”?

January 23, 2024January 23, 2024 Patrick Rael black protest, Resistance, South

This article was originally published on April 29, 2015. Turner sought to carry on in words the work he had

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“Before Brown”: A CBFS Interview

January 19, 2024January 18, 2024 Lucien Baskin black queer studies, CBFS, interview, military, WWII

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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Sabotage of the First Black New Orleans Journalist

January 16, 2024January 3, 2024 Bala Baptiste Civil Rights Movement, racism, Resistance

It was a hot, balmy day in the Crescent City of New Orleans in June of 1970 when Warren Brown

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Rachel and Jackie Robinson and Housing Discrimination in Connecticut

December 6, 2023December 6, 2023 Seth S. Tannenbaum housing, Jackie Robinson, Jim Crow, sports

As a sport historian who focuses on issues of inclusion and exclusion in the twentieth century United States, Jackie Robinson

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