Blood, Sweat, and Tears: A New Book on the History of Black College Football
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Lift Every Voice and Sing: On The Power of the Black National Anthem
“Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a song that most Black Americans of my generation know so deeply that it
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Black Athletes and the Civil Rights Movement
Elgin Baylor would not shut up and dribble. Baylor, who grew up in segregated Washington, D.C., had grown tired of
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Student Activism and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle
*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by historian Jon Hale as
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How Gentrification and Displacement are Remaking Boston
*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by Zebulon Miletsky and
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