‘The Dawn of Detroit’: An Interview with Historian Tiya Miles
In today’s post, Alaina E. Roberts, the Dietrich Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of
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Black Identity
Remembering Pianist and Composer Randy Weston
At the recent Detroit Jazz Festival, I showed vocalist Cecile McLorin Salvant a photo I took of Randy Weston last
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The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics
In Percival Everett’s satirical novel Erasure (2001), a struggling author in need of money to pay for his elderly mother’s
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‘BlacKkKlansman’ and William Shockley’s Eugenic Agenda
Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman‘ is a gladiatorial depiction of racism as a past returned into the present. In one of many
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‘Back to Black’: A New Book on Black Radicalism
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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