To Fulfill These Rights: A New Book About the Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Creating Digital Space for Black Scholarship
This year, within a week, we lost two geniuses: Toni Morrison and Paule Marshall. But at least their words circulate,
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Black Patriotism and Black Death in the Aftermath of the American Revolution
On June 15, 1776, Lucretia Pritchett petitioned the Virginia Convention seeking reparations for the deceased enslaved man over whom she
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Jessye Norman and The Struggle for Black Pathos
soll ich lauschen? Shall I listen? Soll ich schlürfen, Shall I drink, untertauchen? immerse? Süß in Düften
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Diasporic Salutations and the West African Origins of the ‘Dap’
Until recently, the salutations of Black America were an anomaly to mainstream white Americans. The verbal expressions, hand gestures, and
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