Black Women March on Washington: The Sojourners for Truth and Justice and Black Women’s Lives Matter
Before the 1963 March on Washington a group of African American women stormed the gates of the capital demanding that
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Fighting for Freedom: Free Women of African Descent in New Orleans and Beyond
Delivered at the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival on Saturday, March 28, 2015 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the panel
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Since this is the Easter holiday weekend, I thought it would be appropriate to reflect on another Easter 73 years
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***This is the third installment of a short series on Afro-Asia in which I examine the cultural and political exchanges
Read moreFrederick Douglass’s Narrative and Teaching Intellectual History
Frederick Douglass is widely recognized as one of, if not the, foremost black intellectuals of the 19th century. His wide-ranging
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