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The Legal History of Travel Discrimination

November 2, 2023October 29, 2023 Rebecca Dudley book review, civil rights, Jim Crow, racism, Resistance

Many of us take for granted the ease of our particular American-style mobility. We can go wherever we want to,

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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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The Black Left and Political Repression

October 30, 2023October 29, 2023 Lucien Baskin Black Left, CBFS Interview, interview, Radicalism

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

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Dr. Joanne Martin’s Great Blacks in Wax Museum

October 23, 2023October 22, 2023 Menika Dirkson Black women, curation, education, material culture, museums

Across America, The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum is known for highlighting unvarnished accounts of African American History from

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Rio’s Carnival Quilombo

October 19, 2023October 16, 2023 João Gabriel Rabello Sodré and Vítor Antunes Afro-Brazilians, Afro-Latinx, Brazil, Carnival

This post is part of our forum on “Race and Latin America.” Brazil’s Carnival is widely imagined as a locus

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