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The Last Lynching Victim in South Carolina

October 31, 2019October 25, 2019 Brent M. S. Campney book review, Historical Memory, Jim Crow, lynching, Racial Violence, racism, South

In They Stole Him Out of Jail: Willie Earle, South Carolina’s Last Lynching Victim, William B. Gravely, professor emeritus at

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The Killing of John Derrick

October 28, 2019October 24, 2019 Denise Lynn black politics, Communism, Communist Party, police brutality, police violence, Racial Violence

The long history of law enforcement in the United States is littered with the regular abuse, harassment, and too often

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Trailblazing the Field: On Rosalyn Terborg-Penn’s Work in Black Women’s History

October 22, 2019October 18, 2019 Jewell Debnam #RosalynTerborgPenn, black intellectual history, Black women, black women scholars, education, Historiography

*This post is part of our online forum  organized by Stephen G. Hall honoring the life and work of Dr.

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Creating Digital Space for Black Scholarship

October 17, 2019October 9, 2019 Black Book Interactive Project Scholars archives, black intellectual history, digital media, education, literature

This year, within a week, we lost two geniuses: Toni Morrison and Paule Marshall. But at least their words circulate,

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Fantastic and Fatal Coalitions: Revisiting ‘Blood Syndicate’

October 8, 2019October 6, 2019 Rebecca Wanzo #comicsandrace, #MilestoneMedia, black intellectual history, comic books, comics, race, urban history, violence

*This post is part of our online forum on the Black-owned and -controlled Milestone Media. In 1983, Bernice Johnson Reagon

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