Envisioning Black Memphis at Midcentury
*This post is part of our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light By 1940, Memphis, Tennessee was – with
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Race
“An Unseen Light”: On the History of Black Memphis
*This is the introduction to our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light Richard Wright had to leave Memphis.
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A History of Truth in These Troubled Times
A conversation about history, truth, and the American experience is necessary in these troubled times. The truth is under assault
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African Americans and the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement
The cartoon appeared in the October 1949 issue of New Africa, the monthly anti-imperial bulletin of the New York-based Council
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The Deportation of Claudia Jones
This is the final installment in a three-part series on Claudia Jones. Read the first and second installments. At the
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