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The pain of a brutal past and how to find healing is a theme shared between African Americans and black South Africans.
Conservatives and the GOP have mounted a decadeslong legal fight to turn the clock back on the political gains of the civil rights movement.
Voter demographics and policy priorities are two recurrent, big issues on Election Day – but shifts in election administration and voting laws are new challenges influencing the midterms.
A Raisin in the Sun is arguably one of the most compelling narratives of 20th century Black American life.
The son of a formerly enslaved mother, Charles Henry Turner was the first to discover that bees and other insects have the ability to modify their behavior based on experience.
When Rosa Parks was arrested for sitting in the front of a bus in Montgomery, Fred Gray was her lawyer. Now he’s being honored for a lifetime of civil rights advocacy.
In middle school classes, students from lower-income families tended to be concentrated in just a few classrooms, new research from North Carolina has found.
For much of the country’s history, the Republican Party was the party of Lincoln and racial equality, and the Democratic Party backed Jim Crow laws and white supremacy. The two parties switched.
Texas lawmakers resurrected a Jim Crow-era legal maneuver, used to deny Black people the right to vote, in their new law banning most abortions.
Johnson’s victory, in the manliest of sports, contradicted claims of racial supremacy by whites and demonstrated that Blacks were no longer willing to acquiesce to white dominance.
For over a century, Black activists have used punctuation marks to subtly challenge official accounts of events.
A long-lost letter from prison by a civil rights activist provides a window on the pivotal role protesters in South Carolina played in fighting segregation.
Mapping is one way African Americans fight for equality and help each other navigate a racially hostile landscape.
By focusing on African Americans’ experiences of racism in the 1950s, the new series aims to address HP Lovecraft’s racist views.
Protests of Confederate flags and monuments have grown since 2015, but resistance is not new. African Americans have been protesting against Confederate monuments since they were erected.
Suffering a pandemic and the aftermath of a war that killed 50 million, the world in 1920 faced a turning point as it negotiated a new political order. As today, the key issue was racial inequality.
Half a century after the federal government voided Jim Crow laws, the criminal justice system still discriminates against African Americans.
Religion was no barrier for Southern lynch mobs intent on terror. White pastors joined the KKK, incited racial violence and took part in lynchings. Sometimes, the victim was a preacher.
The U.S. under Trump is no longer seen as the enemy by Europe’s New Right, who are the ideological descendants of the original fascists. With Trump’s rise, they have a new hero in an unexpected place.
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Professor of Journalism, Indiana University
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Assistant Professor of Justice Studies and Sociology, Norwich University
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Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History, Bowdoin College
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Visiting Research Fellow, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Professor, Department of History, University of Dayton
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Principal Lecturer in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Birmingham-Southern College
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Paul and Charlene Jones Chair in Law, University of Alabama
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Associate Professor of Social Work; McSilver Faculty Fellow, New York University
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Managing Director of the McCourtney Institute of Democracy, Associate Research Professor, Political Science, Co-host of Democracy Works Podcast, Penn State
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Professor of Political Science, The University of Texas at Austin
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Professor of Geography and Senior Research Associate in the Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State
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Programme Leader and Senior Lecturer in Childhood & Youth Studies, The Open University
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Professor and Chair of History, Vassar College
