Translation for the Purposes of Indictment: Baron de Vastey in Colonial Jamaica
In February 1817, a man named Thomas Strafford returned to Kingston from the Kingdom of Hayti. Shortly afterward he would
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Black history
Black Power, Education, and the History of the Peoples College
Over the past several years, scholars such as Ibram X. Kendi, Martha Biondi, Russell Rickford, and others have produced scholarship
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The Art of Domination: On Decolonizing the Curriculum
Those professors among us who teach from the perspective of the oppressed are often tasked with un-teaching what our students
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How Public Artists Are Exploring the History of Segregation in Baltimore
How should America publicly acknowledge its history of legal segregation? For many people, the intricate system that required whites and blacks
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The Life and Music of Florence Price: An Interview with Rae Linda Brown
In today’s post, Ashleigh Gordon, a world-renowned, award-winning violist and New England Conservatory alumna (Castle of Our Skins, Callithumpian Consort,
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