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Representing HBCUs: Spike Lee’s “School Daze” at 30

March 23, 2018March 26, 2018 Lavelle Porter Black cinema, Black film, blackness, education, Resistance, white supremacy

On the night of February 11, 2018, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) hosted two sold out screenings for the

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Searching for the Black Organizational Past

March 22, 2018March 26, 2018 Melissa Wooten Activism, archives, education, research

Growing up I heard many stories about my parents’ involvement in the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, a collective dedicated

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Stokely Carmichael of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee speaks at Florida A&M University, 1967. Source: Black on Campus.

The Absence of Political Economy in African Diaspora Studies

March 20, 2018March 26, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly African Diaspora, Black Studies, education, education reform, Pan-Africanism

The Black Studies movement, inaugurated in the late 1960s by student- and community-based demands for a “more relevant education,” represented

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W.E.B. Du Bois and the Souls of Academic Folk

February 21, 2018February 24, 2018 Roopika Risam #AAIHSRoundtable, #DuBoisForum, black intellectual history, black internationalism, black politics, teaching, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. In higher education debates, W.E.B. Du Bois is perhaps

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W. E. B. Du Bois and the Representation of Black Higher Education

February 21, 2018February 24, 2018 Lavelle Porter #AAIHSRoundtable, #DuBoisForum, black intellectual history, reconstruction, South, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. In a previous post for Black Perspectives, I wrote

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