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Jumping the Broom and the American Cultural Divide

Many people in the 21st century became familiar with jumping the broom through the 1977 miniseries Roots in a wedding scene

This post is part of my blog series that announces the release of new films in African American History and African Diaspora Studies.

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

A video of Angela Davis’s reception in Bahia, Brazil this summer captures a moment of unbridled joy. She walks into

“Why?” So begins Nikki Taylor’s smart and probing microhistory of enslaved woman Margaret Garner’s murder of her child. But Taylor’s