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How Public Artists Are Exploring the History of Segregation in Baltimore

May 16, 2017May 19, 2017 Joshua Clark Davis art, Baltimore, Jim Crow

How should America publicly acknowledge its history of legal segregation? For many people, the intricate system that required whites and blacks

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From Concentration Camps to the Senate: Black Women in the French Resistance

March 13, 2017March 16, 2017 Annette Joseph-Gabriel Anticolonialism, Black women, France, Resistance

The role that over a million African soldiers played in World War II has garnered interest in recent years. Calls for countries

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Ghosts of the Atlantic: An Author’s Response

March 11, 2017March 14, 2017 Sowande' Mustakeem #SlaveryAtSea, archives, slave trade, slavery

This post is part of our online roundtable on Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea. Slavery haunts the present. Yet, not

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The Moral Challenge of the Middle Passage

March 6, 2017March 10, 2017 Jessica Marie Johnson #SlaveryAtSea, slave trade

This is the introduction to our online roundtable on Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea The field of Middle Passage Studies

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Private, Public, and Vigilante Violence, Part 4

February 12, 2017February 16, 2017 Keri Leigh Merritt emancipation, mass incarceration, police brutality, police violence, white supremacy

This essay is Part Four of a four part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first

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