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Those Most At Risk Might Be Most Wary of a Coronavirus Vaccine
Racism in medicine, including through forced vaccinations, has created skepticism toward public health campaigns.
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Elizabeth Grennan Browning
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Made By History
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September 11, 2020
A Lover’s Blues: The Unforgettable Voice of Margie Hendrix
Remembering the woman who outsang Ray Charles.
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Tarisai Ngangura
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Longreads
on
September 2, 2020
How Federal Housing Programs Failed Black America
Even housing policies that sought to create more Black homeowners were stymied by racism and a determination to shrink the government’s presence.
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Marcia Chatelain
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The Nation
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August 25, 2020
Standing on the Crater of a Volcano
In 1920, James Weldon Johnson went to Washington, armed with census data, to fight rampant voter suppression across the American South.
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Dan Bouk
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Census Stories, USA
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July 27, 2020
Tearing Down Black America
Policing is not the only kind of state violence. City governments have demolished hundreds of Black neighborhoods in the name of urban renewal.
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Brent Cebul
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Boston Review
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July 22, 2020
The Nativist Tradition
Two recent books put the reemergence of anti-immigrant sentiment in the Trump era into historical relief.
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Joel Suarez
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Dissent
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July 6, 2020
The Living History of Juneteenth, Our Next National Holiday
A celebration of emancipation in Texas is taking hold in the minds of Americans everywhere.
by
Brandon R. Byrd
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GQ
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June 19, 2020
Juneteenth And National New Beginnings
The holiday is a reminder of the Civil War's larger meaning, the unfulfilled promise of Reconstruction, and the reinforcement of democratic values.
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Tera W. Hunter
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Essence
on
June 19, 2020
Early Photographs of Juneteenth Celebrations
Historical photographs of early Juneteenth celebrations throughout its home state of Texas and across the country.
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The Public Domain Review
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June 19, 2020
Black Americans, Crucial Workers in Crises, Emerge Worse Off – Not Better
In many national crises, black Americans have been essential workers – but serving in crucial roles has not resulted in economic equality.
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Calvin Schermerhorn
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The Conversation
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June 17, 2020
How Racist Policing Took Over American Cities
"The problem is the way policing was built," historian Khalil Muhammad says.
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Khalil Gibran Muhammad
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Anna North
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Vox
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June 6, 2020
Historical Insights on COVID-19, the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, and Racial Disparities
Illuminating a path forward.
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Lakshmi Krishnan
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S. Michelle Ogunwole
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Lisa A. Cooper
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Annals Of Internal Medicine
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June 5, 2020
Tornado Groan: On Black (Blues) Ecologies
How early blues musicians processed the toll taken by tornadoes, floods, and other disasters that displaced them from their communities.
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J. T. Roane
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Black Perspectives
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March 16, 2020
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Red Chicago
A visit with artists and public historians in Chicago who are working to keep the memory of the city's "Red Summer" alive.
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Future Of America's Past
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March 12, 2020
The Latent Racism of the Better Homes in America Program
How Better Homes in America—a collaboration between Herbert Hoover and the editor of a conservative women’s magazine—promoted idealized whiteness.
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Manisha Claire
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JSTOR Daily
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February 26, 2020
Rube Foster Was the Big Man Behind the First Successful Negro Baseball League
100 years ago, it took a combination of salesman and dictator to launch a historic era for black teams.
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John Florio
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Ouisie Shapiro
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Andscape
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February 13, 2020
Impossible Contradictions
Even Donald Trump’s most draconian and violent immigration policies are still circumscribed by the interests of capital.
by
Brendan O'Connor
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The Baffler
on
February 4, 2020
It’s OK If the Story of Black Americans Begins Right Here on This Land
America should be ashamed of slavery, but black Americans do not bear the burden of shame.
by
Natalie Y. Moore
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Chicago Sun-Times
on
November 21, 2019
Cut Me Loose
A personal account of how one young woman travels to South Carolina in search of her family history and freedom narrative.
by
Joshunda Sanders
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Oxford American
on
November 19, 2019
Walking with the Ghosts of Black Los Angeles
"You can't disentangle blackness and California."
by
Ismail Muhammad
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Literary Hub
on
September 20, 2019
A Lynch Mob of One
The assault rifle has enabled racists to act alone.
by
Ibram X. Kendi
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The Atlantic
on
August 8, 2019
The Supreme Court Decision That Kept Suburban Schools Segregated
A 1974 Supreme Court decision found that school segregation was allowable if it wasn’t being done on purpose.
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Jon Hale
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The Conversation
on
July 24, 2019
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Why The Racial Wealth Gap Persists, More Than 150 Years After Emancipation
When one system of economic oppression collapsed, new ones were created to fill the void.
by
Calvin Schermerhorn
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Made By History
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June 19, 2019
Notes Toward an Essay on Imagining Thomas Jefferson Watching a Performance of the Musical "Hamilton"
"But he'd have to acknowledge that the soul of his country is southern; the soul of his country is black."
by
Randall Kenan
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Ginnie Hsu
via
Southern Cultures
on
June 1, 2019
The Keeper of the Secret
After decades of silence, one man pursues accountability, apologies and the meaning of racial reconciliation.
by
Stephanie McCrummen
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Washington Post
on
March 30, 2019
The Assassination of Fred Hampton
The young Civil Rights activist was killed in the dead of night by police and the FBI. Who was Fred Hampton?
by
Mariah-Rose Marie M
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The Nib
on
February 15, 2019
Why is Everyone Suddenly Saying 'Y'all'?
Or better put, why is it something so many outside of the South have recently adopted?
by
Bill Black
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MEL
on
November 12, 2018
An Enduring Shame
A new book chronicles the shocking, decades-long effort to combat venereal disease by locking up girls and women.
by
Heather Ann Thompson
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New York Review of Books
on
October 7, 2018
Fried Chicken Is Common Ground
If you like hot chicken, perhaps you’d be interested in knowing where it comes from.
by
Osayi Endolyn
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Eater
on
October 3, 2018
A History of Police Violence in Chicago
At the turn of the century, Chicago police killed 307 people, one in eighteen homicides in the city—three times the body count of local gangsters.
by
Jeffrey S. Adler
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Livia Gershon
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JSTOR Daily
on
October 3, 2018
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