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Remaking a Life: A New Book about How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality

September 20, 2019September 10, 2019 J. T. Roane Activism, black politics, Black women, Gender, HIV-AIDS, oral history, Resistance

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Unilever’s Ads and the History of Sexual Abuse Under Slavery

September 19, 2019September 19, 2019 Thomas A. Foster art, Gender, race, Racial Violence, racism, sexuality, slavery

In a typical US advertisement for Magnum ice cream, a young, attractive white woman devours an ice-cream treat coated in chocolate. The

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Transnational Legacies of Slavery and Revolution in ‘The Black Scholar’

September 18, 2019September 16, 2019 Cristina Mislán African Diaspora, Afro-Cubans, black internationalism, Black Power, Caribbean, Cuba, Pan-Africanism, race

Some months after visiting Havana, Cuba in late fall of 1976, Robert Chrisman — editor-in-chief of the journal The Black Scholar —

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Revisiting the Poor People’s Campaign and Its Legacy

September 17, 2019September 16, 2019 Bobby Cervantes Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, black protest, Black radicalism, capitalism, civil rights, poor, poverty, Resistance, Social Movements

Universal health care, a public-job guarantee, and massive wealth redistribution are not just buzzwords in cable news interviews as myriad

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Race and the Paradoxes of the Night

September 16, 2019September 8, 2019 Celeste Henery criminal justice system, environment, race, racism, urban history, white supremacy

In 2001, John Bortle, an experienced, American amateur astronomer, created a scale to measure the darkness of a night’s sky.

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