Race and the Paradoxes of the Night
In 2001, John Bortle, an experienced, American amateur astronomer, created a scale to measure the darkness of a night’s sky.
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Presumed Criminal: A New Book on Black Youth and the Justice System in New York
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Silencing Black Women in the White Courtroom
On August 3, 1952, Ruby McCollum walked into Dr. C. LeRoy Adams’s medical practice in Live Oak, Florida and shot
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The Deportation of Claudia Jones
This is the final installment in a three-part series on Claudia Jones. Read the first and second installments. At the
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Black Radicalism and the Trial of Claudia Jones
This is the second installment in a three-part series on Claudia Jones. Read the first installment here. Claudia Jones believed that
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