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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, 2020December 9, 2020
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There Goes the Neighborhood: What really caused the decline of 18th & Vine

by Zeb Larson December 8, 2020December 9, 2020
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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 16, 2022
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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, 2020February 10, 2021
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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 16, 2020
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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, 2020July 20, 2021
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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, 2019October 28, 2022
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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 16, 2022
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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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Hidden figures: How black women preachers spoke truth to power

by Kenyatta R. Gilbert February 9, 2019April 7, 2021
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Blind Spots: Selective Memory in Brazilian and U.S. Histories

by Andrew Jenner June 25, 2018October 1, 2020
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Who will speak for Alabama's ghosts?

by Christine Folch May 11, 2018October 1, 2020
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Talking about mass shootings involves silence about American history

by Brandon R. Byrd April 13, 2018October 27, 2020
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Mississippi's truth-telling new museum

by Ellen Ann Fentress December 22, 2017September 16, 2020
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Flora Crater, Southern state politics, and the ERA

by Matthew Braswell September 19, 2017September 16, 2020
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The massacre men

by David Forbes July 27, 2017September 16, 2020

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