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Rosa Parks. Photo: Encyclopedia Britannica.

A More Beautiful and Terrible History: A New Book on the Civil Rights Movement

January 22, 2018January 25, 2018 Ibram X. Kendi civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Historical Memory, Martin Luther King Jr.

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

The Race to Preserve African American Radio

December 21, 2017December 27, 2017 Joshua Clark Davis Black Power, Civil Rights Movement

What are the sounds of African American history? And how can we preserve those sounds? Those are the central questions

Black Women and Economic Justice in St. Louis: An Interview with Keona Ervin

December 2, 2017December 6, 2017 Candace Borders Black women, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, economic justice, Jim Crow, Resistance

In today’s post, Candace Borders, a recent graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, interviews Keona K. Ervin on her

Civil Rights Playwrights as Black Intellectuals

November 25, 2017November 28, 2017 Julie Burrell civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Harold Cruse, theater

In the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, contributors reaffirmed the significance of

Storytelling and Racial Healing

September 18, 2017September 21, 2017 Celeste Henery black internationalism, Civil Rights Movement, Frederick Douglass, racism

I recently returned from a storytelling school in a small coastal town on the North Channel of Northern Ireland. I