Black Female Undertakers in 20th-Century Baltimore
Historically, the business of black undertaking has been framed as a male success story—focusing on narratives of lone freedmen with
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Black Women and the Peoples Temple in Jonestown
On November 18, 1978, over nine hundred members of the San Francisco-based Peoples Temple church (including over three hundred children)
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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: A New Book on the Value of the Enslaved
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Attica: Writing on Blood, Violence, and Trauma in History
This is the first day of our roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison
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“Death Is Attached to Their Behavior”: Kim Burrell and Trans Women of Color
In a video clip that has spread widely across the internet, gospel singer and pastor Kim Burrell intones, “Everybody in
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