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Vann R. Newkirk Ii

Vann R. Newkirk Ii

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Black History Month in the Age of Book Bans

Teachers face a unique challenge when their tools for educating young people are restricted. Nearly a century ago, the historian Carter G. Woodson...

27.02.2024 4

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Vann R. Newkirk Ii

The Legacy of Charles V. Hamilton and Black Power

A tribute to a true theorist of democracy This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize...

22.02.2024 7

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Vann R. Newkirk Ii

Revisiting America’s Most Radical Experiment

The Reconstruction era is not just a distant, bygone time. It’s also a living history. This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey...

01.02.2024 3

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Vann R. Newkirk Ii

Black History in a Swedish Bank Vault

A lost trove of photographs from the 1960s and ’70s offers new perspectives on the past—and the present. Ernest Cole was born in 1940 to a Black...

01.02.2024 7

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Vann R. Newkirk Ii

What to Read, Watch, and Listen to Today

Suggestions for your downtime this Martin Luther King Jr. Day This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the...

15.01.2024 10

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Civil Rights Undone

How Trump could unwind generations of progress In late 2020, even as the instigators of insurrection were marshaling their followers to travel to...

07.12.2023 10

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How the Negro Spiritual Changed American Popular Music—And America Itself

In 1871, the Fisk University singers embarked on a tour that introduced white Americans to a Black sound that would reshape the nation. Listen to this...

13.11.2023 10

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Vann R. Newkirk Ii

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