The Hip Hop Pedagogy and Innovative Prose of Rakim Allah
It was the summer of 1986 in Chicago, and my eleven-year-old self was engaged in an intense debate with my
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Zora Neale Hurston, Diaspora, and the Memory of Hurricanes
September has become the month to remember disasters. Apart from September 11, there is the memory of the aftermath of
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Imagining Black Technological Practices in Contemporary America
As practices of online protest evolve into historical narratives, we should take time to consider alternate technological practices developing within
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The Jim Crow Paradox: A New Book on the Associated Negro Press
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Remembering Black Women in St. Louis’s Pruitt-Igoe Housing Projects
An eerie calm has settled over the 57-acre lot where the Pruitt-Igoe Homes once loomed over St. Louis, Missouri. Today,
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