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Everything is Necessary: A New Collection of Poetry

June 21, 2019June 10, 2019 J. T. Roane art, Caribbean, Jamaica, poetry

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

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Rebuiding Church (A Poem)

June 21, 2019June 11, 2019 Lavinia Jackson art, Black church, Black Ecologies, poetry, religion, Virginia

St. John’s Got to scrappin’, grappling With Deshae out some windows And Mt. Landing Out the others. Her pews

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Inculcated Forgetfulness at a New England Port

June 20, 2019June 13, 2019 Lise Breen abolitionism, Activism, black politics, black protest, Civil War, Frederick Douglass, Post-Civil War, race, racism, slave trade, slavery, South

In the fall of 1865, Frederick Douglass riveted a small New England audience for more than two hours. Long forgotten,

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When John Hope Franklin and Pepsi Made a Black History Record

June 19, 2019June 23, 2019 Joshua Clark Davis Black History Month, black intellectual history, capitalism, Historiography, John Hope Franklin

A decade after his death, John Hope Franklin remains among the most prominent historians to ever chronicle the African American

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Staging Habla de Negros: A New Book on Radical Black Performance in Early Modern Spain

June 18, 2019June 17, 2019 J. T. Roane African Diaspora, Black Europe, language, Performance, 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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