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Keepin' It Real: Essays on Race in Contemporary America

Keepin' It Real: Essays on Race in Contemporary America

Keepin’ It Real presents a wide-ranging group of essays that take on key aspects of the current landscape surrounding racial issues in America

2019

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Last week, Republicans in Florida, Oklahoma and Kentucky passed strict abortion laws, the latest in an aggressive wave of anti-abortion…

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Understandably, millions of people across the world were elated by the news of Derek Chauvin’s conviction for the death of George Floyd…

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The Trump’s administration’s abrasvive and blatantly relentless attacks on education and higher education in particular, notwithstanding…

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Shiloh Hendrix, The N-Word, Hate Speech and the Rabid and Perverse Fierce Fervor of White Supremacy!

Earlier this month, Shiloh Hendrix, a White woman from Rochester, Minnesota, was caught on camera in a local park playground using the…

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Elwood Watson, Ph.D.

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Historian, Syndicated Columnist, Public Speaker, Social-Cultural Critic. Professor of Black Studies and Gender Studies, at East Tennessee State University.

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