Pauli Murray and the Need for Racial Reckoning
Confederate monuments are toppling across the nation following the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other African Americans.
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A Black Women’s History of the US: An Interview with Kali Gross and Daina Ramey Berry
Kali Nicole Gross is the Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of History at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. She is also the National Publications
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“This Is Chaos:” Order Maintenance and the Fear of Black Anarchy in Atlanta
Late on May 30, 2020, Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms rose to national notoriety with a passionate speech that rebuked not
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Excavating Black Queer Thought: A Pride Bibliography II
In honor of Pride Month 2020, I wanted to extend the list of texts from the bibliography offered last year,
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Recovering the Lives of City Women
*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments is
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