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The Harmfulness of Black Codes in the State of Alabama

March 29, 2024March 28, 2024 Daphne Calhoun #BlackCodes, #BooksArchivesMonuments, reconstruction

This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.” When the Civil War

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Black Women’s Activism and the Long 1960s: A CBFS Interview

March 14, 2024March 11, 2024 Lucien Baskin Activism, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Resistance

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated by Jeanne

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#BlackThoughtsMatter

January 30, 2024January 23, 2024 Guy Emerson Mount black intellectual history, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, education

This article was originally published on June 28, 2015 As nine beautiful Black minds are laid to rest and Confederate

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Intersectional Critiques of the Criminalization of Black Girls

January 24, 2024January 21, 2024 Lindsey E. Jones Black women, education, Gender

This article was originally published on May 30, 2016. Twenty-first-century Black women advocating on behalf of Black girls are building

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Convict Leasing in the Family

January 17, 2024January 16, 2024 Menika Dirkson carceral state, mass incarceration, racism, South

Around 1920, twenty-four-year-old E. Hooper left her rural hometown of Chester, South Carolina for the big city where she could

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