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Food, Life, and Leisure: A CBFS Interview

Food, Life, and Leisure: A CBFS Interview

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black ...
Requiem for a Howard University Student

Requiem for a Howard University Student

On February 4, 1958, eighteen-year-old Gloria Adelaide Jordan began her Freshman year of college at Howard University to pursue a ...
African Deep Thought

African Deep Thought

The recent increased attention given to understanding racism, critical white studies, and anti-racist politics must also include an investigation and ...
Black Is, Black Ain’t: “Unnatural by Whose Standard?”

Black Is, Black Ain’t: “Unnatural by Whose Standard?”

Representations of Blackness in film and other visual mediums have often presented Black identity in ways that are limiting and ...