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Review: One Night in Miami

by Khayla Deans February 23, 2021March 3, 2021
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How Black kids reclaimed the whitewashed world of 1920's children's literature

by Paige Gray February 8, 2021November 13, 2023
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The Color of Freedom: Reimagining portraits of the formerly enslaved

by Lee Hedgepeth February 5, 2021February 5, 2021
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Essential Reading: Black History and Black Futures

by Scalawag Editors February 1, 2021February 1, 2021
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Pauli Murray: Black revolutionary

by Dolores Chandler January 29, 2021November 13, 2023
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A white supremacist coup succeeded in 1898 North Carolina, led by lying politicians and racist newspapers that amplified their lies

by Kathy Roberts Forde & Kristin Gustafson January 18, 2021September 14, 2021
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A forgotten coup in the American heartland echoes Trump

by Russell Cobb, The Conversation January 12, 2021January 12, 2021
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Before Charlie Parker, there was Lester Young

by Brian Major December 9, 2020December 9, 2020
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The Mutual Musicians Foundation is fighting the gentrification of Jazz in Kansas City

by Zeb Larson December 8, 2020September 27, 2023
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There Goes the Neighborhood: What really caused the decline of 18th & Vine

by Zeb Larson December 8, 2020September 27, 2023
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The first Black drag queen in North Alabama and other untold stories of the Queer South

by Sarah Prager November 17, 2020November 14, 2023
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'I wanted to wear a purple ball gown with a crimson silk cape'

by Cynthia R. Greenlee November 3, 2020November 3, 2020
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Forgotten protest icon Odetta Holmes lives on in modern Black Americana

by Chelsea Spear October 23, 2020February 10, 2021
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Liberation is a Long Haul: Lessons from Juneteenth

by Jakeya Caruthers June 22, 2020September 27, 2023
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Memorial Day and weaponizing the American flag

by Jedediah Purdy May 25, 2020December 3, 2020
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The 'Slave Trail of Tears': recreation or reckoning?

by Sammy Feldblum May 11, 2020October 1, 2020
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How the right to vote became a weapon of exclusion

by Andrew Dilts May 4, 2020September 16, 2020
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Rebellion on the Coast: Louisiana artists reenact Black armed resistance

by Frances Madeson April 14, 2020September 27, 2023
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Paying homage to the Black Women icons of Ebony and Jet Magazine

by Ming Joi March 27, 2020September 16, 2020
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Black educators' harrowing tales of Reconstruction come to life in 'The Uninvited'

by Frances Madeson March 13, 2020September 16, 2020
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Slave rebellion replaces Confederate reenactments. Watch now.

by Tricia Towey January 29, 2020October 1, 2020
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1619-2019

by Danielle Purifoy January 22, 2020October 1, 2020
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During Civil Rights Era, Native American Communities in the South Armed Themselves Against the Klan

by Malinda Maynor Lowery January 20, 2020September 27, 2023
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Finding the thread: The tradition of African-American quilting

by Ellison Langford December 16, 2019September 16, 2020
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The myth and reincarnation of John Wilkes Booth

by Kelly Catalfamo October 30, 2019September 27, 2023
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A Black kingdom in postbellum Appalachia

by Danielle Dulken September 9, 2019October 1, 2020
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Acts of remembrance

by Danielle Purifoy September 2, 2019September 16, 2020
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The Departed and Dismissed of Richmond

by Samantha Willis August 5, 2019November 14, 2023
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The Story of John H. Merrick and the Largest Black Life Insurance Company in the U.S.

by Imari Scarbrough July 22, 2019September 16, 2020
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On archiving and honoring Virginia's long gay histories

by Tiffany Stevens March 18, 2019October 1, 2020

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