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Texas’ Long Celebration of Juneteenth

October 18, 2021October 17, 2021 Nakia D. Parker Resistance, slavery, South

  On June 18, 2021, President Joseph Biden signed legislation that made “Juneteenth,” the commemoration of the event on June

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Baseball and Black American Memory

October 15, 2021October 14, 2021 Robert Greene II Baseball, Jackie Robinson, Major League Baseball, Memory, Negro Leagues

October in the United States means the arrival of the Major League Baseball (MLB) playoffs. Arguably more than any other

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A Jubilee: Can HBCU Publications Revamp Education?

October 6, 2021October 5, 2021 Rochelle Spencer and DeLisa Harris Activism, black intellectual history, education, HBCU, Newspapers

  Thank you to the the library team at Fisk University, especially Dr. Brandon Owens and Dr. Magana Kabugi; their

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Black Student Activism and Durham’s Campus Movement

October 5, 2021October 4, 2021 Brandon K. Winford black protest, Civil Rights Movement, education

The 1960 sit-in movement that began in Greensboro on February 1 is a familiar story when it comes to Black

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Critical Race Theory and the Misappropriating of Martin Luther King, Jr.

September 30, 2021September 29, 2021 Tyler Parry black intellectual history, Civil Rights Movement, education

Martin Luther King, Jr. Speaking Against the Vietnam War, St. Paul Campus, University of Minnesota, April 27, 1967 (Wikimedia Commons)

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