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Joseph Williams on Black Women’s Intellectual Activism

July 23, 2025July 23, 2025 Ashley Everson 0 Comments
Black Newspapers, Black women, Club women, Gender

In today’s post, Ashley Everson, a managing editor of Global Black Thought, interviews Joseph Williams, Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies

Documenting Black Appalachia

November 30, 2023November 22, 2023 E. James West Black Appalachia, Coal, DOCUMERICA, Great Migration, West Virginia

Migration has been a constant theme throughout my Black Perspectives series on African Americans and DOCUMERICA, a landmark 1970s photodocumentary

The Meaning of Black Inexpression

October 10, 2023October 8, 2023 Rhya Moffitt Black Studies, book review, Deadpan, Performance

Tina Post’s first monograph, Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression, charts the territory of deadpan as a Black aesthetic practice. Deadpan, a

Environmental Racism in South Carolina

September 29, 2023September 22, 2023 E. James West DOCUMERICA, environmental justice, photography, race, RaceandDocumerica, racism, Sea Islands

The American metropolis and perceptions of the so-called “urban crisis” have loomed large in previous installments of my Race and

Re-thinking Black (Im)mobility

September 20, 2023August 30, 2023 Nathan Cardon Bicycling, Children, Civil Rights Movement, MEDIA, Motion, photography

On January 10, 2022, a group of young mostly Black and Latinx cyclists known as Everyones Rideout took over a portion of Interstate

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