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Louis Congo: Ex-Slave and Executioner of Louisiana

January 25, 2023January 23, 2023 Menika Dirkson Early Republic, Louis Congo, Louisiana, Punishmnet, slavery

On November 21, 1725, African slave Louis Congo was freed and made a salaried public executioner in Louisiana by the

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George Jackson in a Global Frame

January 24, 2023January 25, 2023 Andrew Anastasi black intellectual history, Black Power

Fifty years ago, George Lester Jackson’s Blood in My Eye dropped like a bomb, but the author did not live to hear

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The Untethered Tongue: Lifting the Black Feminine Voice in Jazz

December 16, 2022December 27, 2022 Sandra Booker Billie Holiday, jazz, music, Nina Simone, Women

What is freedom? Freedom is existing unrestrained in thoughts, actions, and achievements but is not absolved from the world’s reactions

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Black Panthers and LAPD

December 9, 2022December 9, 2022 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. Angela Davis, Black Panther Party, Black Power Movement, Los Angeles, Police

There is much to learn from studying the Black Power Movement in the context of the Black intellectual-activist tradition. It takes

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Remembering Civil Rights Activist Fannie Lou Hamer

October 3, 2022October 3, 2022 Rhonda Y. Williams #AAIHSRoundtable, #UntilIAmFree, Activism, black protest, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Gender

This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Until I Am Free. Prelude I teach a course

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