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A Black man speaks as other protesters stand around him.

White Milwaukee Lied to Itself for Decades, and in 1967 the Truth Came Out

When the Long Hot Summer came to Wisconsin, the reality of race relations was impossible to ignore.
by Syreeta McFadden via Timeline on August 2, 2017

The History and Significance of Kente Cloth in the Black Diaspora

Kente serves as more than a pop of color at college graduations.
by James Padilioni via Black Perspectives on May 22, 2017
The Tower of Babel painting by Pieter Bruegel The Elder

Identity Crisis

It’s only by acknowledging the roots of identity politics in the emancipatory movements of the past that we can begin the work of formulating an alternative.
by Salar Mohandesi via Viewpoint Magazine on March 17, 2017
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How Women's Studies Erased Black Women

The founders of Women’s Studies were overwhelmingly white, and focused on the experiences of white, heterosexual women.
by Erin Blakemore, V. P. Franklin via JSTOR Daily on February 11, 2017
Floyd B. McKissick and Kimp Talley stand in front of a tall sign that reads "Soul City."
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Soul City

In the 1960s, civil rights activist Floyd McKissick successfully sold President Nixon on an idea of a black built, black-owned community in North Carolina.
via BackStory on November 17, 2016
Policemen with nightsticks dragging Black man down the street.

What the Kerner Report Got Wrong about Policing

The Kerner report neglected that police were not simply careless with black lives; they deliberately sought to punish black lives.
by Daniel Geary via Boston Review on May 19, 2016

Soul Survivor

The revival and hidden treasure of Aretha Franklin.
by David Remnick via The New Yorker on April 4, 2016

Why Americans Love To Declare Independence

The 1776 Declaration was only the first. What we learn from the long history of splinter constitutions, manifestos, and secessions that followed.
by Robert L. Tsai via Boston Globe on June 29, 2014

SNCC Digital Gateway

A documentary website that tells the story of how young activists united with local people in the Deep South to build a grassroots movement that transformed the nation.
by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee via SNCC Digital Gateway on January 1, 2013

Their Own Talking

Reconsidering Septima Clark’s life challenges many of our ideas about the Civil Rights Movement and women's roles in it.
by David P. Cline, Septima Poinsette Clark, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Eugene P. Walker, Katherine Mellon Charron via Southern Cultures on June 1, 2010
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John Lewis's American Odyssey

The congressman is the strongest link in American politics between the early 1960s--the glory days of the civil rights movement--and the 1990s.
by Sean Wilentz via The New Republic on July 1, 1996

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