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Black Radicalism and the Trial of Claudia Jones

This is the second installment in a three-part series on Claudia Jones. Read the first installment here. Claudia Jones believed that

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Mentha Morrison: A Story of Debt Peonage in Jim Crow Georgia

Mentha Morrison wanted her husband back. The problem was not domestic, it was legal. Jackson Morrison owed the state of

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‘The Captive’s Quest for Freedom’: An Interview with Historian Richard Blackett

In today’s post, Rachel Zellars, contributor for Black Perspectives, interviews historian Richard Blackett, about his new book, The Captive’s Quest for Freedom: Fugitive

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Silencing Black Women in the White Courtroom

On August 3, 1952, Ruby McCollum walked into Dr. C. LeRoy Adams’s medical practice in Live Oak, Florida and shot

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Mapping Resistance to Surveillance

As pundits await the release of the full Mueller Report and speculate about its final contents, the FBI enjoys greater

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