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Critical Race Theory in Texas

December 8, 2021December 8, 2021 Jennifer Hobson Gormer 1619 Project, Critical Race Theory, CRT, teaching, Texas

The Texas signed the Critical Race Bill into law in summer 2021. Texas is one of many states that prescribes

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What Civil Rights Acts: The Times-Picayune’s Editorial Silence on Civil Rights

December 2, 2021December 1, 2021 Bala Baptiste desegregation, Editorial, integration, Louisiana, New Orleans, Newspapers

The New Orleans morning daily newspaper, The Times-Picayune, during the 11-year period between 1957 and 1968, failed to publish a

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Comic Books, Black History, and Education

November 22, 2021November 21, 2021 Matthew Teutsch education, teaching

Instead of “Unjust to the South” stamped on the inside of our books, we have “promotes/ensures patriotic education” typed into

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How to Write About Nigeria

November 19, 2021November 19, 2021 Bright Alozie africa, colonialism, Nigeria, Writing

**This essay is a work of satire, modeled after the late Binyavanga Wainaina’s “How to Write About Africa.” Much like

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FBI Harassment of Black Families

November 16, 2021November 15, 2021 Denise Lynn black intellectual history, Black radicalism, police violence

American anticommunism has always been an anti-democratic movement that seeks to silence radical voices. At its core, anti-communism has been

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