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“An Unseen Light”: On the History of Black Memphis

October 8, 2018October 17, 2018 Aram Goudsouzian and Charles W. McKinney Activism, black lives matter, Black Power, black protest, Black women, civil rights, Gender, Racial Violence, Resistance, Unseen Light

*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

October 8, 2018October 17, 2018 Hettie Williams black politics, Black women, Donald Trump, electoral politics, Politics

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

October 5, 2018October 8, 2018 Jessica Ann Levy Activism, African Diaspora, black internationalism, black protest, racism, Resistance, South Africa

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

October 5, 2018October 8, 2018 Denise Lynn black nationalism, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Blacks in Britain, Claudia Jones, criminal justice system

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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Enslaved African Americans hoe and plow the earth and cut piles of sweet potatoes on a South Carolina plantation, circa 1862-3 (Image courtesy of Library of Congress)

Mentha Morrison: A Story of Debt Peonage in Jim Crow Georgia

October 4, 2018October 8, 2018 La Toya Tanisha Francis and Patrick Rael black politics, Black women, Jim Crow, racism, South

Mentha Morrison wanted her husband back. The problem was not domestic, it was legal. Jackson Morrison owed the state of

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