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Lynching and the Rise of Black Activism in Memphis

October 9, 2018October 17, 2018 Darius J. Young lynching, race, Racial Violence, racism, Unseen Light

*This post is part of our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light “All the savor had gone out of life.

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“An Unseen Light”: On the History of Black Memphis

October 8, 2018October 17, 2018 Aram Goudsouzian and Charles W. McKinney Activism, black lives matter, Black Power, black protest, Black women, civil rights, Gender, Racial Violence, Resistance, Unseen Light

*This is the introduction to our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light Richard Wright had to leave Memphis.

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Silence and the Inner Lives of Black Nationalist Women

September 26, 2018October 1, 2018 Brandon Byrd archives, black nationalism, black women's internationalism, Racial Violence, Set the World on Fire, sexual violence

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Set the World on Fire Mittie Maude Lena Gordon, Celia Jane Allen,

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The Connections Between Urban Development and Colonialism

August 8, 2018August 16, 2018 Paige Glotzer capitalism, colonialism, gentrification, Racial Violence, racism, segregation

*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by historian Paige

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Paule Marshall’s “Brooklyn” and the #MeToo Movement

July 18, 2018July 23, 2018 Lavelle Porter Black women, Civil Rights Movement, New York, Racial Violence, sexual violence

“Sexual harassment? We didn’t even think to use the term back in the early fifties when this story takes place,”

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