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Historians and the Black Freedom Struggle in the North

April 1, 2019August 12, 2022 Jeanne Theoharis #NationWithinANation, Activism, black politics, Black Power, race, Resistance

*This post is part of our online roundtable celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the publication of Komozi Woodard’s A Nation Within a Nation

Black Women’s Resistance to Sexual Violence

March 22, 2019August 12, 2022 Cécile Yézou archives, black feminism, Black women, Gender, race, Racial Violence, Resistance

Mary told her family story to Charles Houston as part of the “Behind the Veil” oral history project undertaken by Duke University’s

Beulah Richardson Charges Genocide

March 21, 2019August 12, 2022 Denise Lynn Activism, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Racial Violence, Resistance

In 1951, William Patterson, the national secretary of the Civil Rights Congress (CRC), a communist affiliated legal organization, presented the

The Rich Legacy of African American Political and Intellectual History

March 19, 2019March 31, 2019 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, black internationalism, black lives matter, Black political thought, Black women, book review

In 1962, the magazine Negro Digest published a blistering critique of African American intellectuals by the sociologist E. Franklin Frazier. Titled, “The

The Historical Significance of Black Queer Films

March 7, 2019March 9, 2019 Emerald Rutledge Black film, Black Queers, blackness, Essex Hemphill, hip hop, Marlon Riggs, sexuality

In the context of the reemergence of Black nationalist rhetoric and ideologies in hip-hop music in the late 1980s and