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The African American History Survey as an Intellectual Product                                                     

December 20, 2022January 15, 2023 Sylvea Hollis black intellectual history, education, literature

Countless Alabama school children take part in an annual fourth-grade field trip that includes tours of the Alabama State Capitol

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Helmets, Public Safety, and Black Biking Culture in Chicago

December 19, 2022December 27, 2022 Jayson Maurice Porter black protest, capitalism

On any given day in Chicago, if the weather permits, I can count on seeing a Black person riding a

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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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New England’s Unsung Black Liberation Movement

December 8, 2022December 6, 2022 Dylan O’Hara Activism, Boston, education, Massachusetts, New England, School Activism

Zebulon Miletsky’s impressive book project, Before Busing: A History of Boston’s Long Black Freedom Struggle, weaves together 350 years of

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Billie Holiday and the Black Arts Movement

December 7, 2022December 5, 2022 Whit Frazier Peterson Billie Holiday, Black Arts Movement, Blues, jazz, music

The Black Arts Movement (BAM) was a controversial, politically charged cultural uprising, which James Smethurst, in his eponymous study of

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