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Top Five in Bad Times (+ Bonus Track)

July 12, 2016July 12, 2016 Jessica Marie Johnson #BlackLivesMatter, digital media

This has been an especially difficult few weeks for those with any investment in social justice, black families and black

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“One Continuous Graveyard”: Emancipation and the Birth of the Professional Police Force

July 11, 2016July 10, 2016 Guest Poster convict leasing, policing, South

This is a guest post by Keri Leigh Merritt, a historian of the 19th c. American South. She received her

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The “N-word”: Finding Clarity in a Redundant Debate

July 9, 2016July 9, 2016 Guest Poster

The following is a guest post co-authored by Tyler Parry and Clayton Finn. Parry is Assistant Professor of African American

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Is Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome Stamped from the Beginning?

June 28, 2016June 27, 2016 Guy Emerson Mount trauma

This post was inspired by Professor Ibram X. Kendi’s insightful AAIHS critique of Professor Joy DeGruy’s equally insightful book Post

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Remembering Phillis Wheatley

June 26, 2016June 25, 2016 Chernoh Sesay Jr. black intellectual history, Black women, Phillis Wheatley

In my last post, I commented on a specific newspaper piece from the May 18, 1827 edition of Freedom’s Journal,

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