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#SayHerName: The Sandra Bland Movement

April 18, 2016April 20, 2016 Phillip Luke Sinitiere #sayhername, Sandra Bland

In January, I posted on some of the latest developments in the case of Sandra Bland. This month I offer

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Mob Economics and Lynching Narratives

April 14, 2016April 11, 2016 Guest Poster Jim Crow, lynching, Mississippi, William Pickens

This is a guest post by Jason Morgan Ward, an associate professor of history at Mississippi State University. His new

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Celia, #BlackLivesMatter, and the Diffusion of Black Thought

April 13, 2016April 13, 2016 Brandon Byrd #BlackLivesMatter, black protest, Black women, teaching

One of the hardest days in my early African American history class is the day that we analyze State of

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The Roots of “Malcolmology”

April 10, 2016April 9, 2016 Russell Rickford black nationalism, Black radicalism, Malcolm X

For me, as for many children of the 1980s, the recent death of Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest

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Making Freedom in Colonial Antigua: An Interview with Natasha Lightfoot

April 4, 2016April 4, 2016 Reena Goldthree Antigua, Black women, Caribbean, emancipation, slavery

This month, I interviewed historian Natasha Lightfoot about her new book, Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation

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