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The Art And Lives of James Baldwin: An Interview with Douglas Field

January 15, 2017March 26, 2017 Phillip Luke Sinitiere black intellectual history, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, religion

This month I interviewed Douglas Field about his book All Those Strangers: The Art and Lives of James Baldwin. Field

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W.E.B. Du Bois, The Black Flame, and the Struggle Ahead

January 11, 2017January 20, 2018 Lavelle Porter #CharlestonSyllabus, 2016 Presidential Election, Charleston, W.E.B. Du Bois

Reading W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Black Flame trilogy in the months after the June 17, 2015 massacre at Emmanuel AME

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Fashioning Lives: A New Book on Black Queers and the Politics of Literacy

January 6, 2017January 8, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black feminism, Black Queers, Literary studies

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

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“We Need Your Freedom”: An Interview with Alexis Pauline Gumbs

December 13, 2016May 7, 2017 Jessica Marie Johnson Harriet Tubman, Phillis Wheatley

This week, I had the pleasure of interviewing Alexis Pauline Gumbs on her new book Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity

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A Tribute to Gloria Naylor: Teacher of Black Feminism

November 26, 2016November 24, 2016 Kami Fletcher black feminism, feminism

On September 28, Gloria Naylor passed away from heart failure. She was 66 years old and one of the

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