Kelsey Klotz is a lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She received her PhD in Musicology with a certificate in American Studies from Washington University in St. Louis in 2016. Her research focuses on the intersection of race and sound in 1950s and 1960s American musical culture, with a particular focus on jazz.
In celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day this year, here is a list of resources to learn more about the history of the federal holiday and the man we commemorate, along with videos of remembrances and Dr. King's speeches. It wasn’t until 2000 that all 50 United...
Caitlin Rosenthal is Associate Professor of History at the University of California Berkeley, where her research and teaching explore the development of management practices, especially those based on data analysis.
Today, the name "Karen" represents a faction of the population, made up of white women specifically, that is threatened by the prospect of losing its place atop a toxic, racial hierarchy rooted in the original sin of slavery. The "Karen" holds an ugly place in...
Professor Hoag is an anti-death penalty advocate who recently published, Valuing Black Lives: A Case for Ending the Death Penalty and argued before the Ohio Supreme Court advocating for Glen Bates.
John Lewis, a civil rights hero, dies at 80 | 1940-2020 Representative John Lewis, a son of sharecroppers and an apostle of nonviolence who was bloodied at Selma and across the Jim Crow South in the historic struggle for racial equality, and who then carried a...
Here is a list of podcasts and radio programs that deal with the history of American policing, prisons, and the criminal justice system. BEHIND THE POLICE On this special podcast miniseries hosts Robert Evans and rap artist Propaganda (Jason Petty) draw a straight...
Here is a brief list of free documentaries, lectures, and tv programs about various aspects of racism, policing black communities, and the history of black America. WHITE FRAGILITY (2018) Dr. Robin DiAngelo reads from her book White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for...
The history of policing in the United States has deep and complicated roots that reach all the way back to 1704, when the colony of Carolina organized the first slave patrol. Since the end of slavery, the police continued to act as enforcers of Jim Crow and...
In this session, we talk to Todd M. Michney, who shares from his book Surrogate Suburbs: Black Upward Mobility and Neighborhood Change in Cleveland, 1900–1980, about redlining.