Online Forum: A History of Student Activism
January 8–12, 2018 A line of African American students walking through a crowd of white boys in Clinton, TN, during
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Memory
Moving Slave Narratives from Film to Comics
Comics might not be the first place you’d think to go to for profound meditations on complex topics like war,
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Cosmic Literacies and Black Fugitivity
Star-gazing as a practice of fugitivity has a long history for Black Americans. According to folklore, spirituals like “Foller de
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The Historical Hatred of Haiti
In 2016, while campaigning in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood, Donald Trump told a group of Haitians that, “We have a
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Portraits of Black Womanhood
When I first encountered Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait d’une Negresse at the Louvre, I had just researched and encountered the remains of
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