The Poetry of Una Marson and Dionne Brand: An Interview with Belinda Deneen Wallace
In today’s post, Nathan H. Dize, a PhD student in the Department of French and Italian at Vanderbilt University, interviews Belinda
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African diaspora
Slavery, New Orleans, and the Counting Blues
In “Countin’ the Blues,” Gertrude “Ma” Rainey sings, “Layin’ in my bed with my face turned to the wall…Tryin’ to
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Black Women Communists and Pan-Africanism: An Interview with Minkah Makalani
In today’s post, Richard Mares, an editorial assistant at Black Perspectives and Ph.D. candidate at Michigan State University, interviews Minkah Makalani about his recent article in
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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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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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