Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: A New Book on Popular Black History in Postwar America
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Art for the People’s Sake: Chicago’s Black Arts Movement
The past five years have brought numerous fifty-year Civil Rights and Black Power Movement commemorations to the fore. Last year,
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Visions–André Daughtry’s Short Film and New Black Surrealisms
*This post is part of our New Black Surrealisms series organized by Tiffany E. Barber and Jerome Dent and features
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The 1917 Halifax Explosion and Structural Anti-Blackness in Times of Crisis
Last fall, two local researchers from Halifax, Nova Scotia published their original findings of racial disparities in the relief efforts
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‘A White Man Took Her’: Trauma, Loss, and Grief among the Enslaved
In November 1864, a formerly enslaved man named Peter Bumper and his fiance Bucinda Nelson had their marriage registered with
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