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Audre Lorde standing in front of board reading "Women are powerful and dangerous." Source: The Guardian.

Black Queer Writers and the Transformative Possibilities of Queer Sensuality

January 17, 2017January 19, 2017 J. T. Roane black intellectual history, Black Queers, sexuality

Black Queer writers of the 1980s hoped to precipitate a seismic transformation in the political culture of the United States.

Migration, Diasporic Self-Making, and Madame De Mena: An Interview with Courtney Morris

January 12, 2017January 15, 2017 Kami Fletcher #WomenandPanAfricanismSeries, Universal Negro Improvement Association

In today’s post, Kami Fletcher, an Assistant Professor of African American History at Delaware State University, interviews Courtney Desiree Morris about

“Death Is Attached to Their Behavior”: Kim Burrell and Trans Women of Color

January 10, 2017January 12, 2017 Lindsey E. Jones black lives matter

In a video clip that has spread widely across the internet, gospel singer and pastor Kim Burrell intones, “Everybody in

Suspect Freedoms: A New Book on Afro-Cubans in New York

January 9, 2017January 11, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi Afro-Cubans, Anticolonialism, Immigration, Latin America, Latino/a

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

When It Ain’t Broke: Black Female Representation in Comics

January 9, 2017August 5, 2017 Alyssa Collins #comicsandrace

This guest post is part of our new blog series on Comics, Race, and Society, edited by Julian Chambliss and