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Documenting Nannie Helen Burroughs: A New Book About a Pioneering Civil Rights Leader

July 12, 2019July 8, 2019 J. T. Roane Activism, black politics, Black women, civil rights, race, Resistance

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

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(Anti)Blackness, Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution, and Guaidó’s Attempted Coup

July 9, 2019September 16, 2019 Layla Brown-Vincent African Diaspora, Afro-Latin, black politics, capitalism, Caribbean, Cuba, Haiti, Latin America, race, racism

On January 23, 2019 with the support of US Vice President Mike Pence, Juan Guaidó, a white supremacist, anti-people, opposition

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Pushing Beyond the Two-Party System: Dick Gregory’s 1968 Presidential Campaign

July 8, 2019July 1, 2019 E. James West Activism, black politics, black protest, Black radicalism, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, presidents, race, Resistance

In a March 2011 profile of African American comedian Dick Gregory written for GQ magazine, journalist Robert Chalmers mused, “it’s

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The Common Wind of the African Diaspora

July 5, 2019July 5, 2019 Kevin Dawson academia, academic publishing, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Caribbean, Cuba, Haiti, race, Resistance, slavery

Julius Scott’s The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution is one of the academy’s worst-kept secrets.

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Lift Every Voice and Sing: On The Power of the Black National Anthem

July 4, 2019July 3, 2019 Erica Ball education, James Weldon Johnson, music, NAACP, segregation

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a song that most Black Americans of my generation know so deeply that it

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