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Remembering Malcolm

February 19, 2017February 22, 2017 Garrett Felber #RememberingMalcolm, Malcolm X

This week on Black Perspectives, we mark the 52nd anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination with a week-long forum, “Remembering Malcolm,”

On Louise Little, the Mother of Malcolm X: An Interview with Erik S. McDuffie

February 19, 2017February 21, 2017 Keisha N. Blain #RememberingMalcolm, #WomenandPanAfricanismSeries, Malcolm X, Pan-Africanism

In today’s post, Keisha N. Blain, Senior Editor of Black Perspectives, interviews Erik S. McDuffie about his recent article in the special

Harriet Tubman, ca. 1860–1875. Photo: Library of Congress.

Pictorial Manifestations: On a Younger Harriet Tubman

February 15, 2017February 19, 2017 Janell Hobson Harriet Tubman, Post-Civil War, slavery, Underground Railroad, Visual Culture

Few may remember the rather juvenile comments objecting to the announcement on April 20, 2016 by the Department of the

Cosmological Queerness Across the Yoruba Diaspora

February 5, 2017April 2, 2018 James Padilioni Jr Afro-Brazilians, Black Queers, Brazil, religion, slave trade, slavery

The constellating topics of homosexuality and masculinity are perennial to Black American discourses. In contemporary debates, the chorus shouting loudest

Black Female Undertakers in 20th-Century Baltimore

February 3, 2017February 4, 2017 Kami Fletcher Baltimore

Historically, the business of black undertaking has been framed as a male success story—focusing on narratives of lone freedmen with