Highways, High-Rises and Food Deserts
This is the second part of our series about Race and DOCUMERICA. For many DOCUMERICA photographers, images of Black life
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Chicago
Radio Journalism and Civil Rights
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
*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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Confinement and Disease from Slavery to the COVID-19 Pandemic
As many college students as well as others have moved back home during the current pandemic people’s houses are feeling
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Art for the People’s Sake: Chicago’s Black Arts Movement
The past five years have brought numerous fifty-year Civil Rights and Black Power Movement commemorations to the fore. Last year,
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