Confederate Flags in the Jim Crow North
Photo: Opponents of local civil rights activists raise a Confederate flag in the Bronx, July 1963 *** Over the years,
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#prayforcharleston
I have nothing other than just sadness, once again, that we have to peer into the abyss of the depraved
Read moreRoundtable on Black Women’s Intellectual History Day 4: Activist Intellectuals
This is the fourth day of our roundtable reviewing the book Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women. We began with Lauren
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Before the 1963 March on Washington a group of African American women stormed the gates of the capital demanding that
Read more“Black People and the Victorian Ethos:” Respectability Politics, Black Organizing, and Black Power
When someone is engaging in respectability politics, he or she is adopts the manners and morality of the dominant or
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