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Pittsburgh Reformers and the Black Freedom Struggle

February 9, 2023February 7, 2023 Ashley Everson #CanaanDim, #Roundtable, Great Migration, NAACP, Pittsburgh, Urban League

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

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Migrants, Reformers, and Pittsburgh’s Labor Movement

February 8, 2023February 7, 2023 Julia W. Bernier #CanaanDim, #Roundtable, labor, NAACP, Pittsburgh, Urban League

This post is part of our online roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan, Dim and Far. On January 19, 1841,

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Lift Every Voice and Sing: On The Power of the Black National Anthem

July 4, 2019July 3, 2019 Erica Ball education, James Weldon Johnson, music, NAACP, segregation

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a song that most Black Americans of my generation know so deeply that it

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Before the Central Park Five, There Was the Trenton Six

July 3, 2019June 21, 2019 Denise Lynn civil rights, Communism, Communist Party, Jim Crow, NAACP, police brutality, police violence, prisons, race, racism

The four-part docuseries When They See Us, directed by Ava DuVernay, has brought attention to the notorious case of the Central

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The Historical Erasure of Violence Against Black Women

January 24, 2018January 30, 2018 Denise Lynn black feminism, black protest, Black women, Communism, NAACP, racism, sexual violence, South, white supremacy

The #MeToo movement and the recent attention to Recy Taylor’s 1944 rape has drawn much needed attention to the consistent

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