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The American Dream and the Urban Crisis

March 8, 2021March 19, 2021 Julia Rabig #RaceForProfit, Black women, capitalism, civil rights, economic history, Gender, housing, race, racism, segregation, urban history

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ‘Race for Profit’ For decades, historians have chronicled manifestations of systemic

Silencing Black Radicalism Since the Cold War

December 3, 2020December 3, 2020 Denise Lynn Activism, black internationalism, Black radicalism, civil rights, Resistance, W.E.B. Du Bois

As the recent election has shown, anti-communism is alive and well in the United States. Donald Trump and other conservatives

The Radical and Transnational Roots of Black History Month in Britain

October 7, 2020October 4, 2020 E. James West African Diaspora, black internationalism, black protest, civil rights

In 1926, Carter G. Woodson, historian and founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, announced

Pauli Murray and the Need for Racial Reckoning

October 5, 2020October 4, 2020 Barbara Lau and Robin Kirk Activism, black feminism, black protest, Black women, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, education, Gender, race, racism, Resistance, sexuality, South

Confederate monuments are toppling across the nation following the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other African Americans.

How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights

October 1, 2020October 1, 2020 Brandon James Render Black film, civil rights, race

Following the lead of Martin Luther King, Jr., Black civil rights activists dismantled Jim Crow legislation with colorblind logic. Yet,