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Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez and the African American Community of New Orleans during the Civil War

October 19, 2022October 13, 2022 Anthony J. Cade II abolition, Civil War, Louis Charles Roundanez, Newspapers, slavery

Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez lived an extraordinary life. He traveled the world, earned two medical degrees, started two newspapers, and was an activist during

The Lexicon Origins of People of Color

September 27, 2022September 25, 2022 Warren Milteer, Jr. black intellectual history, race

The term “people of color” is in a strange place in its evolution as part of the American lexicon. The

Black Women and the Southampton Rebellion

October 27, 2021October 26, 2021 Robert Colby Black women, Black Women's History, Nat Turner, Slave Revolt, slavery, Southampton

In 2003, Kenneth Greenberg edited a collection of essays on the Southampton County, Virginia, slave revolt commonly known as Nat

The Rise and Fall of an Afro-Brazilian Publisher

October 20, 2021October 19, 2021 Celso Thomas Castilho black intellectual history, Resistance, slavery

Francisco de Paula Brito (1808-61), an Afro-Brazilian man of letters, “a son and grandson of freedpersons,” catalyzed critical transformations in

A Black Brazilian Immigrant and the Struggle Civil Rights in the U.S.

January 26, 2021January 26, 2021 Lloyd Belton Activism, African Diaspora, black protest, Gender, race, Resistance

Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and Sarah Parker Remond are usually the