Beyond Respectability: A New Book on Black Female Public Intellectuals
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Activism
Civil Rights Organizations, the Black Press, and Ethnic Nationalist Movements in Africa
As African societies began to break the shackles of colonial domination during the mid-twentieth century, African Americans looked to these
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A Civil Rights Protest Is Happening Right Now in Colombia
As of May 10, thousands in the majority-Black department of Chocó in the northwestern corridor of the Colombian Pacific are
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A Reverence for Hope: On Struggle, Faith, and Persistence
“Poetry is not a luxury.” — Audre Lorde America horrifies me. Its savagery and vulgarity. Its appetite for racial terror.
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Ideas in Unexpected Places: Why a Marketplace Intellectual Life Still Matters
This post is a condensed version of Davarian Baldwin‘s keynote address at the 2017 AAIHS conference at Vanderbilt University. ***
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