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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Resistance
Dr. King and a Moral Plan for Justice
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was a pastor, civil rights leader, Nobel Prize winner, author, son, husband, and father. It took
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Black Administrative Politics and the Question of the US State
In his book Administering Freedom, labor organizer and historian Dale Kretz asks how formerly enslaved Black people made freedom meaningful through
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Womanist Theology and A Black Woman’s Intellectual Movement
This post is part of our forum on “Womanist Theology.“ My grandmother stood neither silent nor conspicuous in her daily
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Black Los Angeles Contributes to the Freedom Rides
In the summer of 1961, Black people from Los Angeles and their allies volunteered to travel south and take part
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