Black Women’s Resistance to Sexual Violence
Mary told her family story to Charles Houston as part of the “Behind the Veil” oral history project undertaken by Duke University’s
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Black Identity
Therese Patricia Okoumou: Black Women’s Bodies and Public Protest
Tomorrow, March 19, Therese Patricia Okoumou will be sentenced for her protest climb of the Statue of Liberty this past
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Look at Me: A New Book About Education and the Black Queer Body
*This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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The Historical Significance of Black Queer Films
In the context of the reemergence of Black nationalist rhetoric and ideologies in hip-hop music in the late 1980s and
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The National Character of Black Oppression
For the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, a small cadre of activist intellectuals sought to understand African American exploitation
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