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The American Dream and the Urban Crisis

March 8, 2021March 19, 2021 Julia Rabig #RaceForProfit, Black women, capitalism, civil rights, economic history, Gender, housing, race, racism, segregation, urban history

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ‘Race for Profit’ For decades, historians have chronicled manifestations of systemic

Audre Lorde: Meet

February 18, 2021February 22, 2021 Alexis Pauline Gumbs African Diaspora, black feminism, Black women, Gender, Pan-Africanism, sexuality

1.arrangement “There is a place here where the Atlantic meets the Caribbean and it is very magical,

Audre Lorde And I Were Once Enemies

February 16, 2021February 15, 2021 Kenyon Farrow #AudreLorde, Activism, black feminism, Gender, white supremacy

Audre Lorde and I were once mortal enemies. At least that’s the way it seemed. In late 2004, I wrote

Biographies of Women and Emancipation in the Americas

February 11, 2021February 11, 2021 Vanessa M. Holden Activism, African Diaspora, Black women, Gender, Resistance

Last fall, many people waited anxiously for the results of the U. S. elections. From Tuesday, November 3rd through Saturday,

How Enslaved People Found A Pathway to Self-discovery

February 10, 2021February 8, 2021 Tyler Parry africa, religion, slavery

In 1837, Charles Ball published a memoir recounting his experience as one enslaved for forty years in the states of