Lift Every Voice and Sing: On The Power of the Black National Anthem
“Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a song that most Black Americans of my generation know so deeply that it
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Before the Central Park Five, There Was the Trenton Six
The four-part docuseries When They See Us, directed by Ava DuVernay, has brought attention to the notorious case of the Central
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The Historical Erasure of Violence Against Black Women
The #MeToo movement and the recent attention to Recy Taylor’s 1944 rape has drawn much needed attention to the consistent
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Confronting School Choice, Part II: The 1980s in Review
The issue that occasions this post is the NAACP’s recent call for a moratorium on charter schools until the charter
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Racial Violence and America’s Civil Rights Century: An Interview with Jason Morgan Ward
In today’s guest post, Stephen G. Hall interviews Jason Morgan Ward about his new book, Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence and
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