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The Times-Picayune’s Historical Use of the N-Word

September 8, 2023August 25, 2023 Bala Baptiste Jim Crow, MEDIA, Newspapers, white supremacy

The News Orleans daily newspaper the Times-Picayune, since its founding on January 25, 1837, and throughout 1914, when it merged

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Blog Announcements: Meet the Editing Team!

September 1, 2023August 27, 2023 AAIHS Editors

The editing team of Black Perspectives is excited to begin the next academic year! Thank you for supporting us over

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Philadelphia’s Fight Against Gun Violence, Poverty, and Crime

August 31, 2023August 11, 2023 Menika Dirkson Philadelphia, violence

In 1969, the New York Times named Philadelphia the “gang capital” of America when the city had the highest rates

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Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners

August 30, 2023August 4, 2023 Taylor Prescott book review, Jim Crow, violence

Margaret Burnham’s By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022) excavates little-known accounts of violence

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Unsilencing the Haitian Revolution in US Hip Hop

August 22, 2023August 14, 2023 Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall #HipHop50, #HipHopSeries, hip hop

This post is part of our forum on “Hip Hop at 50.”  Haiti got a special place in our history,

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