“Our Emancipation Day”: Martin Luther King Jr. in Chicago
*This post is part of our forum on Martin Luther King Jr.’s impact on American cities. Chicago’s strategies to keep African
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Race
Enslaved People and Divorce in the African Diaspora
Numerous books and articles analyze the concept of “slave marriage,” but other than a few exceptional works, the historical literature
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A Primary Moral Position: Black Feminism and Self-Possession
*A version of this essay originally appeared on Public Seminar, as part of its Race/isms Book Forum on The Making of Black Lives Matter:
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Blackness, Gender, and the Non-normative
*A version of this essay originally appeared on Public Seminar, as part of its Race/isms Book Forum on The Making of Black Lives Matter:
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On War, Imperialism, and Racism
*This is a transcript of a speech prepared by historian Russell Rickford for a protest against Former Vice President Dick
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