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Thoughts on Underground

Warning this post contains spoilers I first heard about WGN America’s Underground back in October, shortly after I started working

“Wait, what!? How do you even teach this kind of history?” “What kind of texts do you use in class?”

The upcoming year promises to be an exciting one for the African American Intellectual History Society. Not only is the

I was recently looking through scans of The Blackman, a periodical published by Marcus Garvey Jr., son of the founder

In recent years, Whitney Plantation has been transformed into a site for the memory of African enslavement in American and