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Lift Every Voice and Sing: On The Power of the Black National Anthem

July 4, 2019July 3, 2019 Erica Ball education, James Weldon Johnson, music, NAACP, segregation

“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

July 3, 2019June 21, 2019 Denise Lynn civil rights, Communism, Communist Party, Jim Crow, NAACP, police brutality, police violence, prisons, race, racism

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

January 24, 2018January 30, 2018 Denise Lynn black feminism, black protest, Black women, Communism, NAACP, racism, sexual violence, South, white supremacy

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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September 1980: Public School 207 in Brooklyn. Photo: Vic DeLucia/The New York Times.

Confronting School Choice, Part II: The 1980s in Review

December 6, 2016December 5, 2016 Lindsey E. Jones education reform, NAACP

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

November 14, 2016November 12, 2016 Stephen G. Hall black politics, Black women, Jim Crow, lynching, Mississippi, NAACP

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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