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The International MLK

January 17, 2022January 16, 2022 Robert Greene II Civil Rights Movement, Internationalism, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK Day, Vietnam War

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1959 Morehouse Commencement Address offered the young pastor an opportunity to tell the graduates of his

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Black Women, West Indian Networks, and US immigration

January 10, 2022January 9, 2022 Menika Dirkson black intellectual history, Black women, literature

“I was numb, but it was from not knowing just what this new life would hold for me.” —Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy

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Black Remembrance and Racial Violence in New Orleans

December 21, 2021December 20, 2021 Sowande’ M. Mustakeem Jim Crow, Racial Violence

In 1831, Nat Turner—who led a band of bondpeople into insurrection in Southampton, Virginia –was executed, quelling what a great

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MLK And Lillian Smith

December 20, 2021December 19, 2021 Matthew Teutsch Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, Gender, South

On Sunday October 16, 1960, three days before the October 19 Atlanta sit ins where Martin Luther King, Jr. was

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(Re)locating Sites of Memory in Appalachia Through Black Spaces and Stories

December 10, 2021December 9, 2021 Kristan McCullum Appalachia, Black Appalachia, desegregation, Kentucky, Memory

“You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for houses and livable acreage. Occasionally the

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