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On W. E. B. Du Bois and Poetry

February 20, 2018February 24, 2018 Phillip Luke Sinitiere #AAIHSRoundtable, #DuBoisForum, black intellectual history, black politics, Pan-Africanism, racism, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. At Carnegie Hall on February 23, 1964, Lorraine Hansberry

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W. E. B. Du Bois, Aesthetics, and the Weird

February 20, 2018February 24, 2018 Britt Rusert #AAIHSRoundtable, #DuBoisForum, black intellectual history, Literary studies, literature, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. The stature and prominence of W. E. B. Du

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"Cruelties of slavery." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1835-05.

Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean: A New Book on Atlantic Slavery

January 27, 2018February 2, 2018 Keisha N. Blain African Diaspora, archives, Caribbean, freedom, slavery

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

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The Race to Preserve African American Radio

December 21, 2017December 27, 2017 Joshua Clark Davis Black Power, Civil Rights Movement

What are the sounds of African American history? And how can we preserve those sounds? Those are the central questions

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Black Women’s Voices and the Archive

November 15, 2017November 17, 2017 Halee Robinson archives, Belle Meade Plantation, Black women, Public History, slavery, violence

In 1886, Charles Dudley Warner, a Massachusetts-born writer, traveled to Nashville, Tennessee to learn about the Southern way of life.

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