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Tulsa and the Open Question of Justice, 1921–2021

June 8, 2021June 7, 2021 Kwasi Konadu social justice, Tulsa, violence

This week marks the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa race riots, a massacre orchestrated by a white mob against

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The Afterlives of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

June 3, 2021June 2, 2021 Rose M. Brewer Activism, Black Power, education, Racial Violence, Resistance

What is it about May and Black death?  What is it about Memorial Day when it comes to white racial terrorism

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The Reconstruction Origins of Black Wall Street

June 1, 2021May 30, 2021 Alexandra E. Stern archives, black protest, race, Resistance, Tulsa

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre targeted and destroyed the city’s prosperous Greenwood District, home to a vibrant economy of Black-owned businesses that

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Call for Submissions: Juneteenth and the Black Experience

May 21, 2021June 5, 2021 AAIHS Editors Historical Memory

Editor: Robert Greene II, Ph.D. Black Perspectives is inviting blog posts centering around the Juneteenth holiday in time for the

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Black Germans and New Forms of Resistance

May 17, 2021June 5, 2021 Tiffany Florvil Black German, Germany, mourning

In her book In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, scholar Christina Sharpe described her concept of “wake work” as “a

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