La Esclava Blanca: The New Telenovela Rewriting Colombia’s History of Slavery
This is a guest post by Yesenia Barragan, a historian of race, slavery, and emancipation in Colombia, Afro-Latin America, and
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Memory
Remembering Phillis Wheatley
In my last post, I commented on a specific newspaper piece from the May 18, 1827 edition of Freedom’s Journal,
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Muhammad Ali, Freedom Road, and the Legacy of Reconstruction
Today we’re featuring a guest post by Robert Bland, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University
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Why We Must Remember: Reflecting on the Charleston Massacre One Year Later
On June 17, 2015, a white supremacist walked into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina,
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image courtesy HMD, Prince, Wired[1] “I can’t imagine the world without Prince in it. Who’s going to make the
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