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Black Resistance and Lynching Memory: An Interview with Mari N. Crabtree Part II

May 3, 2023August 7, 2023 Menika Dirkson art, interview, lynching, Memory, methods

Today’s post is the second part of Black Perspectives’ regular contributor, Menika Dirkson interview of Mari N. Crabtree on her

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Black Los Angeles and the LAPD in the Early 1960s

February 21, 2023February 20, 2023 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. black politics, police brutality, police violence

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and other city officials could have prevented the Watts Rebellion in August 1965 had they addressed the concerns

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Striving Toward Freedom and Black Pittsburgh

February 6, 2023February 4, 2023 Hettie Williams #AAIHSRoundtable, #CanaanDim, Activism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan, Dim and Far. Canaan, Dim and Far:

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Tyre Nichols and the Complexity of Institutional Racism

February 1, 2023January 31, 2023 Anique John black lives matter, Racial Violence, racism

Racial injustice, institutional racism, and police brutality are painful aspects of our society that we have not and should never

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The Untethered Tongue: Lifting the Black Feminine Voice in Jazz

December 16, 2022December 27, 2022 Sandra Booker Billie Holiday, jazz, music, Nina Simone, Women

What is freedom? Freedom is existing unrestrained in thoughts, actions, and achievements but is not absolved from the world’s reactions

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