“An Outrage”: A New Film about Lynching in the American South
This post is part of a new blog series that announces the release of new films in African American History
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The Congressional Black Caucus and the Dilemmas of Progressive Politics
President Donald Trump’s request for White House correspondent April Ryan to “set up” a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus
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On Writing the Book Proposal: An Interview with Dawn Durante
This month I interviewed Dawn Durante about best practices for book proposals and the scholarly publishing process. Durante is a Senior Acquisitions
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Zora Neale Hurston’s Radical Black Love
by Ayesha Hardison and Randal Maurice Jelks When Zora Neale Hurston published Their Eyes Were Watching God in 1937, she
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“Held in Trust by History:” The Intellectual Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr.
On the morning of December 11, 2016, a notice in the Chicago area news read as follows: “Author Lerone Bennett
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