Paul Laurence Dunbar, Racial Uplift, and Collective Identity
On December 8, 1896, Paul Laurence Dunbar met with John Wesley Cromwell, Alexander Crummell, Walter B. Hayson, and Kelly Miller
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Black Identity
The Political Origins of Black History Month
Has Black History Month run its course? Every year conversations take place weighing the significance of Black History Month. Assertions
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The Radical Diversity of Liberator Magazine
This post is part of our online roundtable on Chris Tinson’s Radical Intellect Scholars of print culture struggle to quantify the influence of
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Attack Dogs and the History of Racial Violence
In 1970 French author Romain Gary published his novel White Dog, a semi-biographical work that imaginatively recreated the author’s experiences
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Ernest Gaines and Black Studies as Refuge
Part I: Making the wind pink, and the grass Black In “The Sky is Gray,” James, a young Black boy,
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