Search Results for: racism

When the Nevada Supreme Court Tackled Racial Bias

May 5, 2022May 5, 2022 Randolph M. Fiedler & Jocelyn S. Murphy black lives matter, George Floyd, Las Vegas, police brutality, Supreme Court

Thirty years ago, seeking to address “the civil unrest in Las Vegas” triggered by decades-long discrimination against Black people throughout

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Betting on Black: Gambling and Gaming in the ‘Mississippi of the West’

May 4, 2022May 5, 2022 Kendra Gage, Javon Johnson, and Tyler D. Parry #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackLasVegas, Jim Crow

      In the famous 1954 Ebony article “Negroes can’t win in Las Vegas,” James Goodrich dubbed Sin City

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Introducing “Black Las Vegas”

May 2, 2022May 1, 2022 Tyler Parry #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackLasVegas, black politics

Building its reputation upon tourism, gaming, and a constant search to innovate the entertainment industry, visitors to Las Vegas can

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Black Perspectives Summer Books Preview, Part I

April 27, 2022April 26, 2022 Robert Greene II art, black intellectual history, black internationalism, black protest

There are a plethora of books being released this summer which will be of special interest to readers of this

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W.E.B. Du Bois and the Aesthetics of Emancipation

April 21, 2022April 20, 2022 Clay Matlin art, artistic production, Beauty, black artists, W.E.B. Du Bois

“I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty and for Beauty to set the

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