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Claudia Jones Against the Korean War

September 23, 2019September 16, 2019 Denise Lynn Activism, antiwar activism, black internationalism, black politics, black protest, Black radicalism, Black women, capitalism

Peace was a central aspect of the post-World War II Black Freedom Struggle, partially because the nuclear bomb was only

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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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Roberta Elder: The Case of a Black Woman Serial Killer

May 28, 2019May 28, 2019 Denise Lynn Black women, Gender, police violence, violence, white supremacy

The killings may have started as early as 1938, but no one suspected murder until Reverend William M. Elder died

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Mack Ingram and the Policing of Black Sexuality

May 7, 2019May 5, 2019 Denise Lynn Activism, black protest, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Gender, Jim Crow, race, Racial Violence, racism, white supremacy

In 1951, Mack Ingram was arrested, found guilty, and sentenced to two years of hard labor for looking at a

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Beulah Richardson Charges Genocide

March 21, 2019August 12, 2022 Denise Lynn Activism, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Racial Violence, Resistance

In 1951, William Patterson, the national secretary of the Civil Rights Congress (CRC), a communist affiliated legal organization, presented the

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