Anti-Communism and A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry Speaking to an Audience, 1959 or
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Black Identity and the Power of Self-Naming
Black identity is the most political social identity used to identify people of African descent in the United States. The
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Alphaeus Hunton: The Fight for Equality and Liberation during WWII
It has been argued that the Communist Party, USA (CPUSA) neglected the struggle for African American equality during World War
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The Pittsburgh Courier’s Discursive Power, 1910-1940
“A Negro seaman whose ship was then in Boston Harbor was the first martyr in the cause of American independence,”
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Theorists, Strategists, and Histories of Slavery
In the 1640s in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, Maria Portogoys, a “half free,” formerly enslaved woman, arranged that
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