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Today, let's remember that the first Memorial Day celebration was held on May 1, 1865 by Black people in Charleston, SC. As historian David Blight puts it, "The war was
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I've been revisiting Malcom X's autobiography today for his birthday & it's clear that part of why the book is so important to so many is bc it embodies the
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Was reading through some Du Bois today, and I came across a piece he published in 1935 entitled A NEGRO WITHIN A NATION and was struck by how these words,
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I keep revisiting this photo of grandfather watching my dissertation defense. Born in 1930 Mississippi, in a town where ppl were lynched, where the Klan terrorized the community, where there
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What is the best novel you’ve ever read? Top picks seem to be:- 100 Years of Solitude- A Tale of Two Cities- Beloved- Invisible Man- All the Light We Cannot
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I successfully defended my dissertation over Zoom today & got to share the moment w/ friends & family from every part of my life.It wasn’t what I had imagined, it
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It can both be true that it is necessary for schools to close for the rest of the year because our public health crisis *and* that these closures may have
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Every year on April 9th, the anniversary of Confederate surrender at Appomattox, I read this 1871 speech by Frederick Douglass on how, only 6 years after the Civil War ended,
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If someone is incarcerated for a technical violation or a “nonviolent offense” & they die from coronavirus, it is a tragedy.But ppl should be mindful of language that suggest that
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Black people are disproportionately dying from this virus & it's impossible to separate from decades of hypersegregation, overcrowded public housing, landfills & air pollution in our neighborhoods, & lack of
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