‘It’s Still All Good’: Black Women’s Race Politics and the Limits of Black Exceptionalism
Image courtesy of The Ebony Archives[1] I was watching the 67th prime time Emmy Awards live when they aired on
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“Concede Nothing” – How to Remember a Storm Ten Years Later
This year marked ten years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall. To say New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast would
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Below are new books in African American intellectual history soon to be published or already published within the last 6
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When director F. Gary Gray chose to cut the scene depicting rap producer Dr. Dre’s infamous assault on journalist Dee Barnes, then-TV
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The passing of the great civil-rights leader Julian Bond earlier this week ignited a firestorm of activity on Twitter.
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