ATLiens Turns 20: OutKast’s Past-Future Visions of the Hip Hop South
At the 1995 Source awards, the Atlanta hip hop duo OutKast was met with a crowd of booing New Yorkers
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African diaspora
Haiti in Translation: A New H-Haiti Blog Series
H-Haiti began in June 2016 with the expressed purpose of existing as a virtual kalfou, or crossroads, where activists, artists,
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Dark Work: A New Book on the Business of Slavery in Rhode Island
This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am editing, which announces the publication of selected
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Black Intellectual History and STEM: A Conversation with Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
This month, I interviewed Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on the intersections of black intellectual history and STEM. Dr. Prescod-Weinstein is a
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Black Zionism, Reparations, and the “Palestine Problem”
Earlier this year, Ta-Nehisi Coates made his now-familiar argument for reparations, which called for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to
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