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Northern Journalism in the Promotion of the Lost Cause

March 26, 2024March 27, 2024 Marvin Walker #BooksArchivesMonuments, antiblackness, Black Newspapers, Black Reconstruction, Jim Crow

This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.” Since the age of

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John Potts and Radical Student Activism

November 1, 2023October 24, 2023 Candace Cunningham black intellectual history, education, HBCU history, Higher education, Resistance, teaching

Black educator Dr. John Foster Potts may be a largely unknown figure today, but in Jim Crow-era South Carolina he

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Why Black People Believe the End is Near

October 31, 2023October 24, 2023 Benjamin Baker black intellectual history, racism, religion

Recently Pew Research Center released the results of a study on “How Religion Intersects with Americans’ Views on the Environment.” In it,

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Robert Smalls and Reconstruction Politics

September 6, 2023August 22, 2023 Karen Cook Bell Civil War, education, Leadership, Politics, reconstruction, Robert Smalls

Reconstruction politics shares a political lineage with the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. Both periods sought to fulfill the nation’s mandate

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Zora Neale Hurston’s Anthropological Legacy

March 30, 2023March 23, 2023 Ida E. Jones Anthropology, black feminism, book review, Womanism, Zora Neale Hurston

As the twentieth century shrinks in the collective imagination of American popular culture, select iconographic images and sounds remain eternal.

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