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Celebrating Black Intellectual History–Then and Now

In “Don’t Cash Crop My Cornrows,” a video created for her high school history class that later went viral, Amandla

Black women have been “winning” for Black freedom since the sixteenth century. Groups of enslaved African and African-descendant women who

This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.” As a fourth-generation member

Tina Post’s first monograph, Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression, charts the territory of deadpan as a Black aesthetic practice. Deadpan, a

The groundbreaking Approaches to Teaching the Works of Octavia Butler (2019), edited by Tarshia Stanley, features a powerful essay by my colleague