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Beauty, Black Power, and Black Student Activism in Memphis

October 10, 2018October 17, 2018 Shirletta Kinchen Activism, black protest, Black women, race, racism, Unseen Light

*This post is part of our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light “Everybody come in that’s going to jail with

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Enslaved People in Eighteenth-century Britain: An Interview with Nelson Mundell

October 10, 2018October 17, 2018 Keisha N. Blain African Diaspora, archives, Race and Economic History, research, slavery

In today’s post, Keisha N. Blain, Senior Editor of Black Perspectives, interviews Nelson Mundell about the new online database, Runaway Slaves

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“An Unseen Light”: On the History of Black Memphis

October 8, 2018October 17, 2018 Aram Goudsouzian and Charles W. McKinney Activism, black lives matter, Black Power, black protest, Black women, civil rights, Gender, Racial Violence, Resistance, Unseen Light

*This is the introduction to our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light Richard Wright had to leave Memphis.

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The Deportation of Claudia Jones

October 5, 2018October 8, 2018 Denise Lynn black nationalism, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Blacks in Britain, Claudia Jones, criminal justice system

This is the final installment in a three-part series on Claudia Jones. Read the first and second installments. At the

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Claudia Jones and the FBI Harassment of Black Radicals

October 3, 2018October 8, 2018 Denise Lynn black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Claudia Jones

This is the first installment of a three-part series on Claudia Jones. In February 2018, New Yorker satirist Andy Borowitz

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