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Black Resistance and Lynching Memory: An Interview with Mari N. Crabtree Part II

May 3, 2023August 7, 2023 Menika Dirkson art, interview, lynching, Memory, methods

Today’s post is the second part of Black Perspectives’ regular contributor, Menika Dirkson interview of Mari N. Crabtree on her

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Black Resistance and Lynching Memory: An Interview with Mari N. Crabtree Part I

May 2, 2023August 20, 2023 Menika Dirkson Racial Violence, racism, white supremacy

Black Perspectives’ regular contributor, Menika Dirkson, interviews Mari N. Crabtree on her most recent book publication, My Soul Is a

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In Afeni’s Shadow: the Impact of Trauma on a Revolutionary Life

May 1, 2023April 30, 2023 Cheryl X. Dong Activism, Black Power, black radical tradition, Black women

Tupac Shakur wrote  “Dear Mama” to celebrate his mother’s strength and plea for her love.  The song is an unfiltered

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AP African American Studies, CRT, and Redressing Institutional Racism

April 19, 2023April 18, 2023 Anique John African American Studies, Black Studies, Critical Race Theory, CRT, Institutional Racism, racism

It is an undeniable fact that institutional racism plagues America. On February 7, 2023, at the State of the Union

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Black Homeownership Before World War II

March 29, 2023March 23, 2023 Menika Dirkson Home Ownership, housing, Jim Crow, Philadelphia, segregation

On November 2, 1914, twenty eight-year-old James H. Teagle, the “colored” chauffeur for Philadelphia City Controller John Walton, left his

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