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Black Women Public Intellectuals in U.S. History and Culture
The field of Black women’s intellectual history has experienced a renaissance in recent years. Works such as Toward an Intellectual ...

Documenting Black Appalachia
Migration has been a constant theme throughout my Black Perspectives series on African Americans and DOCUMERICA, a landmark 1970s photodocumentary ...

Joyce Ladner and SNCC
On the occasion of the recent sixtieth anniversary of the March on Washington, many of us celebrated and remembered those who ...

Dr. King and a Moral Plan for Justice
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was a pastor, civil rights leader, Nobel Prize winner, author, son, husband, and father. It took ...