Billie Holiday and the Black Arts Movement
The Black Arts Movement (BAM) was a controversial, politically charged cultural uprising, which James Smethurst, in his eponymous study of
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Race Consciousness
Black Chicagoans, The Great Migration, and Nature
In Landscapes of Hope, author Brian McCammack brings together topics such as recreation, celebration, resistance, class conflict, protest, and activism.
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Utopia in Dark Times
In this turbulent historical moment, I find myself often reflecting on Octavia Butler’s 1993 novel Parable of the Sower . Butler
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James Farmer and the Roots of a Black Activist-Intellectual
James Farmer conceptualized and developed a nonviolent direct-action philosophy that could be applied in the United States. He drew inspiration from
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A Mortal Man’s Heart: Kendrick Lamar and Black Masculinity
We haven’t heard from Kendrick Lamar (as far as solo projects) since the 2017 Pulitzer Prize winning album DAMN. Kendrick
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