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Until I Am Free: Teaching Fannie Lou Hamer Past and Present

February 3, 2022February 2, 2022 Nicole M. Gipson black politics, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Fannie Lou Hamer, SNCC

  What we don’t know about the real life of the civil rights leader, Fannie Lou Hamer could fill a

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The Black Radical Tradition in *The Dawn of Everything*

January 21, 2022January 20, 2022 Kevin Suemnicht black intellectual history, black lives matter, slavery

Amidst ongoing racial injustice, the threat of global climate change, and the disappointing aftermath of the George Floyd Rebellion, is

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Black Remembrance and Racial Violence in New Orleans

December 21, 2021December 20, 2021 Sowande’ M. Mustakeem Jim Crow, Racial Violence

In 1831, Nat Turner—who led a band of bondpeople into insurrection in Southampton, Virginia –was executed, quelling what a great

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MLK And Lillian Smith

December 20, 2021December 19, 2021 Matthew Teutsch Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, Gender, South

On Sunday October 16, 1960, three days before the October 19 Atlanta sit ins where Martin Luther King, Jr. was

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Gun Control and Black America

December 13, 2021December 12, 2021 Alani Golanski black lives matter, black protest, Racial Violence

Kyle Rittenhouse learned that, following the police shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake, outraged citizens would be showing up

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