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Black Women, Sanderson Farms, and the Strike for Better Conditions

October 4, 2021October 3, 2021 Derrion Arrington Activism, Black women, Gender

African American Women in Industry, 1939-1945 (New York Public Library)     “Try Miss Goldy Chickens, and try a little

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Haiti and US Policing

September 3, 2021September 2, 2021 Willie Mack African Diaspora, black politics, Haiti

The recent assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Möise and the power vacuum he left have deep roots in United States

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Unmarked and Unburied: the Unsettling of Black Death

August 10, 2021August 12, 2021 Crystal Webster #AAIHSRoundtable, #contestedcitizenship, race, Racial Violence

The contemporary “discovery” of unmarked graves and unburied bodies of African Americans remains a disturbing reality of the Black experience.

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Policing Black Freedom

August 5, 2021August 5, 2021 Philip V. McHarris #contestedcitizenship, Activism, police violence, Resistance, slavery, W.E.B. Du Bois, white supremacy

*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study

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The Historical Roots of Abolition in the Twenty-First Century

June 11, 2021June 9, 2021 Julia Bernier Activism, black radical tradition, Haiti, slavery, white supremacy

In June 2020 Mariame Kaba penned an opinion piece in the New York Times entitled, “Yes We Literally Mean Abolish

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