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James Farmer and the Roots of a Black Activist-Intellectual

June 23, 2022August 4, 2022 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. 0 Comments
biography, Black Power, Civil Rights Movement, James Farmer, Jim Crow

James Farmer conceptualized and developed a nonviolent direct-action philosophy that could be applied in the United States. He drew inspiration from

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The Spanish Slave Ship Carlotta “Denounced” By a Shark

June 22, 2022August 4, 2022 Aderivaldo Ramos de Santana 3 Comments
Black Atlantic, Brazil, Carlotta, Haiti, Historiography, Shark, Slave Ship, Spain

On September 4, 2022, we remember an important date in the history of the Brazilian nation: 172 years since the

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Black Genealogy After Alex Haley’s Roots

June 17, 2022June 16, 2022 Menika Dirkson 2 Comments
africa, Alex Haley, Genealogy, Roots, television, West Africa

“A lot has been stolen from Black Americans. A lot has been hidden from Black Americans. And so there is

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The Bud Billiken Parade

June 16, 2022June 15, 2022 E. James West 0 Comments
Bud Billiken Parade, Chicago, Chicago Tribune, DOCUMERICA, Parade

Over the last two installments of my series on race and DOCUMERICA, we’ve explored the contrasting visions of Black Chicago

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Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, and the NAARPR

June 15, 2022June 14, 2022 Tony Pecinovsky 1 Comment
abolition, Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, Communism, CPUSA, JoAnne Little, National Defense Organization Against Racist And Political Repression, Prison Abolition

In June 1972, an all-white jury acquitted Angela Davis of charges in her alleged role in an August 1970 Marin County, California

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