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SOURCE: Boston Review
6/29/2021
Blackness and the Bomb
by Erica X. Eisen
"Throughout the atomic age, civil defense authorities demanded the active participation of Black citizens whom their measures failed to protect."
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8/2/2020
The Battle of The Atlantic has Lessons for Fighting COVID-19
by Marc Wortman
Pleasure-seekers and shoreline business owners on the east coast of the United States rejected voluntary calls to dim their lights in 1942. German U-Boat crews devastated shipping and commerce until compulsory blackouts were enforced.
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