Full Name
Marilyn Howard
Dr. Marilyn K. Howard earned her PhD in American history from The Ohio State University (Dissertation: Black Lynching in the Promised Land: Mob Violence in Ohio 1876 - 1916). She is an associate professor in the Department of Humanities at Columbus State Community College. She has published essays in a number of anthologies, including the Encyclopedia of Racial Violence in America and the Encyclopedia of Jim Crow. She continues to conduct research on the lynching of black men by white mobs in Ohio.
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Book Review: A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power by Abby Phillip
When the Reverend Jesse Jackson died on February 17, it was very nearly the end of an era. Watching his funeral was surreal. Now only the Reverend Andrew Young remains from that group of African American preachers who fought so doggedly for civil rights in the 1960s. I had the pleasure of…
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Book Review: Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us About Breasts by Sarah Thorton
Perhaps nowhere other than American is there such a prurient fascination with women’s breasts. In the cultural landscape, they are stared out, celebrated, deified, legislated against, and commodified in a way no other female body part is. Moreover, is there a woman who is satisfied with her…
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Book Review - The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon’s Enduring Impact on America by Mark Whitaker
Malcolm X was one of the most dynamic and misunderstood leaders in the United States in the middle of the twentieth century. He was tall, handsome, extraordinarily charismatic, and a spell bounding, fiery orator. While he never received mainstream acceptance during his lifetime, his impact on the…
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Book Review - Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution
To quote the blues singer Big Maybelle, “There was a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on” in 1963. It began in January, which marked the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, and President John F. Kennedy hosted a number of prominent African Americans at a reception in the White House–taking great…