The Problem with Baltimore
In 2015, Harvard economists Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren did a study on how the socioeconomic conditions of the neighborhoods
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The Early Activism of Angela Davis
On October 13, 1970, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Angela Davis in New York facing indictments for kidnapping,
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Movie Theaters, the Urban North, and Policing the Color Line
While America’s urban areas witnessed a massive boom in the popularity of motion pictures and moviegoing in the early twentieth
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Black Los Angeles and the LAPD in the Early 1960s
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and other city officials could have prevented the Watts Rebellion in August 1965 had they addressed the concerns
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When the Nevada Supreme Court Tackled Racial Bias
Thirty years ago, seeking to address “the civil unrest in Las Vegas” triggered by decades-long discrimination against Black people throughout
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