Black Women and the Southampton Rebellion
In 2003, Kenneth Greenberg edited a collection of essays on the Southampton County, Virginia, slave revolt commonly known as Nat
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The Rise and Fall of an Afro-Brazilian Publisher
Francisco de Paula Brito (1808-61), an Afro-Brazilian man of letters, “a son and grandson of freedpersons,” catalyzed critical transformations in
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Texas’ Long Celebration of Juneteenth
On June 18, 2021, President Joseph Biden signed legislation that made “Juneteenth,” the commemoration of the event on June
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Baseball and Black American Memory
October in the United States means the arrival of the Major League Baseball (MLB) playoffs. Arguably more than any other
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Black Women, Self-Making, and Liberty
Historian Tamika Nunley introduces At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery and Shifting Identities in Washington D.C. with the anecdote
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