Zora Neale Hurston’s Radical Black Love
by Ayesha Hardison and Randal Maurice Jelks When Zora Neale Hurston published Their Eyes Were Watching God in 1937, she
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Month: March 2017
The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio
This is an excerpt from the fourth chapter of Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on
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“Held in Trust by History:” The Intellectual Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr.
On the morning of December 11, 2016, a notice in the Chicago area news read as follows: “Author Lerone Bennett
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Race, Belonging, and Unconditional White Amnesty
At a raucous 2016 campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona, then-candidate Donald Trump outlined his plan to curb “illegal immigration” and
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The Signifyin(g) Saint: Encoding Homoerotic Intimacy in Black Harlem
On June 25, 1942, Edward Atkinson arrived at 101 Central Park West to sit for a photo shoot in the
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