Are there substantive and important differences between the music created by men and women? Plus, DJ Soul Sister visits class to discuss her craft.
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Written by: Morgan Franklin
AJC Research Fellow Morgan Franklin reflects on visiting the city of Birmingham on the fiftieth anniversary of the bombing of the 16th St. Baptist Church.
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Fifty years after the bombing of the 16th St. Baptist Church, a look back at the struggle for civil rights taking place in Birmingham in 1963.
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Forty-seven million Americans are assisted by SNAP benefits. On November 1st, those benefits will be cut across the board by a predicted $5 billion.
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To only acknowledge Rosa Parks’ agency in the moment of sitting down on that bus understates her lifelong activism and belittles the breadth and longevity of her service to the cause of social justice.
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We African American Women seldom do just what we want to do, but always what we have to do. I am grateful to have been in a time and place where I could be a part of what was needed.”
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The siting of petroleum coke, a toxic waste byproduct of refining oil sands, in a lower-income community of color in Detroit is a familiar story of environmental injustice. Residents of that community are organizing to ensure that the story ends with the four-story-high piles of pet coke being removed.
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Why talk about race when we discuss post-disaster recovery in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina?
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Professor Harris-Perry opened her lecture by presenting the challenge at the heart of our material for the week: “How does a community prove it is experiencing an environmental harm that impacts its health?”
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We have to critically evaluate the question, “What could be bad about that?” and understand that while providing certain positive outcomes, mechanisms of “revitalization” can often have deleterious effects on certain communities.
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