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Black Mobility, Law, and Freedom

In 1849, an unnamed Missouri slave owner took a male slave to California to search for gold. Two years later,

During the presidential primaries of 2016, Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders promoted a policy that, for many, was a radical idea.

“The environmental movement is, in my view, the greatest threat to freedom and prosperity in the modern world” said Myron

Recently scholars have come to question “emancipation” as the proper terminology for describing the end of American slavery, preferring instead

The idea of “the Dream Sequence” was introduced to me by Howard alum and former professor Acklyn Lynch, a figure