The Times-Picayune’s Historical Use of the N-Word
The News Orleans daily newspaper the Times-Picayune, since its founding on January 25, 1837, and throughout 1914, when it merged
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Jim Crow
Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners
Margaret Burnham’s By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022) excavates little-known accounts of violence
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Black Resistance and Lynching Memory: An Interview with Mari N. Crabtree Part II
Today’s post is the second part of Black Perspectives’ regular contributor, Menika Dirkson interview of Mari N. Crabtree on her
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Black Resistance and Lynching Memory: An Interview with Mari N. Crabtree Part I
Black Perspectives’ regular contributor, Menika Dirkson, interviews Mari N. Crabtree on her most recent book publication, My Soul Is a
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Howard Thurman’s Jesus and the Disinherited as a Framework for Victory
This post is part of our forum on Howard Thurman and the Civil Rights Movement. Howard Thurman (1899-1981) was a preacher,
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