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Race, Gender, and Religion in New Jersey’s Civil Rights Movement

January 23, 2025January 19, 2025 Cherisse Jones-Branch #GeorgiaOfTheNorth, Black women, civil rights, education

This post is part of our online roundtable on Hettie V. Williams’s The Georgia of the North. Hettie V. Williams has

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Cars for Freedom: SNCC and the Sojourner Motor Fleet

January 13, 2025January 8, 2025 Travis Wright Jim Crow, South, travel

On a late summer night in 1964, a small plane landed on a desolate airstrip outside Greenwood, Mississippi, carrying two

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The Rejection of CRT in the Southern Baptist Convention

October 30, 2024October 30, 2024 Rev. Ralph Douglas West Black church, Jim Crow, race, slavery

The May 1995 issue of Christianity Today, included the report of a leading African American voice in the Southern Baptist

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A Critique of Black Capitalism in an American Horror Film

October 22, 2024October 20, 2024 Kaela Buchanan and Yasmine Guy popular culture, race, Racial Capitalism

The film, Candyman (1992), is a Blaxploitation film, a reactional Black revenge story that seeks to challenge white racism, privilege,

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Reflections of the 60th Anniversary of Urban Uprisings in America

October 17, 2024October 18, 2024 Heather Ann Thompson UrbanRebellions

This post is part of our forum on the Urban Rebellions of the 1960s On this momentous 60th anniversary of

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