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Untitled photo, possibly related to- Washington D.C. slum area, Nov. 1937. John Vachon, photographer. Photo: Library of Congress.

On the Spiritual Geography of Black Working-Class Washington

June 20, 2017June 23, 2017 J. T. Roane religion, research, spirituality

In 1946, University of Chicago-trained anthropologist and religionist James Sydney Slotkin conducted a course in the anthropology and sociology department

"Freedmen Voting in New Orleans," engraving, 1867. Photo: New York Public Library Digital Collections.

The Gift of Black Folk and the Emancipation of American History

June 19, 2017June 21, 2017 Westenley Alcenat black intellectual history, reconstruction, slavery, W.E.B. Du Bois

“Our song, our toil, our cheer, and warming have been given to this nation in blood-brotherhood. Are not these gifts

The Making of Black Lives Matter: A New Book on the Movement’s History

June 17, 2017June 20, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi #BlackLivesMatter, Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, police brutality, Politics

This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

“Talking Black in America”: A New Film on African American English

June 13, 2017June 15, 2017 Michael T. Barry Jr. #FilmFeatures, Black film, dialect, film, language, linguistics

This post is part of a new blog series that announces the release of new films in African American History

Gerald Horne’s Japan

June 8, 2017June 12, 2017 Yuichiro Onishi #Horne, Afro-Asia, Japan

This post is part of our online roundtable on Gerald Horne’s Black Radical History The historian Gerald Horne is a