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CFP: Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy

Since the founding of the United States, Black intellectuals have questioned the limits of American democracy. While in the past

The Supreme Court’s infamous 1896 ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson – issued several decades after white actor Thomas Dartmouth

Las Vegas has a long and glamorous entertainment history that evokes images of tuxedo clad crooners, female singers in elegant

In the famous 1954 Ebony article “Negroes can’t win in Las Vegas,” James Goodrich dubbed Sin City

By the mid-twentieth century, Las Vegas’ reputation as the “Mississippi of the West” was well-earned. As Black Americans from the