Student Activism and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle
*This post is part of our online forum on Student Activism. High school student activism in Mississippi during the 1960s highlights the overlooked
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History, Memory, and Gentrification
I spent my Sundays in November photographing in Clarksville—a neighborhood in Austin, Texas, which was founded by freedpeople after the
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Slavery, the Plantation Myth, and Alternative Facts
Earlier this year, NBC journalist Chuck Todd pressed the Counselor to the US President, Kellyanne Conway, to explain spurious claims made
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African Americans’ Civil Cases in the Jim Crow South
In 1910, 48-year-old Rebecca Sallee fell into an open hole on a city street in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, as she made
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African American Freedom and the Illusive “Forty Acres and a Mule”
On August 18, 2016, the United Nations Working Group on Experts of People of African Descent determined that the history
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