Search Results for: slavery

Ta-Nehisi Coates, David Brooks, and the Master Narrative of American History

July 25, 2015July 25, 2015 Guy Emerson Mount capitalism, Ta-Nehisi Coates, teaching

    I love Ta-Nehisi Coates.  David Brooks…not so much.  Biases disclosed, their squabble—if one can even call it that—exposes

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Nothing is Impossible: Black History and Black Futures as a Flag Falls

July 12, 2015July 12, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson #BlackLivesMatter, #CharlestonSyllabus, Activism, Ferguson, freedom, reconstruction, slavery, South Carolina

At dawn on June 27, 2015, Bree Newsome (with support from local activists) scaled the flag pole in front of

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For all the hereafter

July 5, 2015July 6, 2015 Patrick Rael

The Fourteenth Amendment is a living document, and Clarence Thomas is a terrible historian June 26 was a pretty good

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Confederate Flags in the Jim Crow North

July 1, 2015October 24, 2017 Brian Purnell

Photo: Opponents of local civil rights activists raise a Confederate flag in the Bronx, July 1963 *** Over the years,

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We live in interesting times.

June 29, 2015 Patrick Rael

This is a strange moment. On the one hand, the last several years have witnessed a truly remarkable change in

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