Mae Mallory: Forgotten Black Power Intellectual
On October 2, 1962 journalists at the Chicago Defender interviewed Mae Mallory, a prisoner at the Cuyahoga County Jail in
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Intellectual Identity
When Scholars Cry: Celebrating the Career of Thomas C. Holt
If you’ve never seen a historian cry, you’re probably hanging out with the wrong historians. The day you see multiple
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As part of my ongoing research on the life, thought, and history of W. E. B. Du Bois, this month
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Museums, Newspapers, and African American Archives
The nearing completion and grand opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.
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Celia, #BlackLivesMatter, and the Diffusion of Black Thought
One of the hardest days in my early African American history class is the day that we analyze State of
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