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The Bud Billiken Parade

June 16, 2022June 15, 2022 E. James West 0 Comments
Bud Billiken Parade, Chicago, Chicago Tribune, DOCUMERICA, Parade

Over the last two installments of my series on race and DOCUMERICA, we’ve explored the contrasting visions of Black Chicago

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Tricksters, Biographies, and Two-Faced Archives

June 2, 2022June 1, 2022 K. T. Ewing 0 Comments
Alberta Hunter, biography, Blues, Chicago, Memphis, Methodology

In 2015, precisely 31 years to the day of her death, blues and cabaret singer Alberta Hunter was inducted into

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Highways, High-Rises and Food Deserts

January 19, 2022January 18, 2022 E. James West Black Metropolis, Chicago, documumerica, photography, urban

This is the second part of our series about Race and DOCUMERICA. For many DOCUMERICA photographers, images of Black life

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Radio Journalism and Civil Rights

January 13, 2022January 12, 2022 Bala James Baptiste black nationalism, Chicago, civil rights, journalism, New Orleans, Radio

The first radio stations that targeted all of their programming toward African Americans in Chicago and New Orleans disseminated different types

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The Links Between Policing and Environmental Justice

September 28, 2020September 27, 2020 Teona Williams #BlackEcologies, Chicago, police brutality, police violence, University of Chicago

*This post is part of our new series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane. At 10:15

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