“QUEST”: A New Film on Black Family Life
This post is part of my blog series that announces the release of new films in African American History and African Diaspora Studies.
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Black Family
The Weeping Time: A New Book on the Largest Slave Auction
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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The Tears, Struggles, and Hopes of Black Women
A video of Angela Davis’s reception in Bahia, Brazil this summer captures a moment of unbridled joy. She walks into
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Margaret Garner and the Complexities of Slavery and Gender
“Why?” So begins Nikki Taylor’s smart and probing microhistory of enslaved woman Margaret Garner’s murder of her child. But Taylor’s
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Remembering Black Women in St. Louis’s Pruitt-Igoe Housing Projects
An eerie calm has settled over the 57-acre lot where the Pruitt-Igoe Homes once loomed over St. Louis, Missouri. Today,
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