Sometime Between: Living Archives and the Power of Black Agency
This post is the introduction to our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming In the opening pages of New World A-Coming: Black
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Black Identity
The Black Intellectual Tradition and Hip Hop
Pictured in profile on the cover The Narrative (2016), hip hop artist Sho Baraka calls upon listeners to draw connections between
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Zora Neale Hurston, Diaspora, and the Memory of Hurricanes
September has become the month to remember disasters. Apart from September 11, there is the memory of the aftermath of
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Imagining Black Technological Practices in Contemporary America
As practices of online protest evolve into historical narratives, we should take time to consider alternate technological practices developing within
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African Americans and the Classics: An Introduction
The history of African American engagement with Classical history, literature, and philosophy has been fraught with controversy and complexity. Much
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