Roundtable on Black Women’s Intellectual History Day 4: Activist Intellectuals
This is the fourth day of our roundtable reviewing the book Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women. We began with Lauren
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Seeking for the Land of Freedom: Commencement Season
I saw a desert and I saw a woman coming out of it. And she came to the bank of
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This is the fifth entry in a series on the centennial of the U.S. occupation of Haiti. The previous entry
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Recent images from Baltimore of citizens clashing with police, police in riot gear, and burning buildings appear similar to other
Read moreBarack Obama and the Legacy of Reconstruction
Is Barack Obama right that race relations are not worsening now? New Yorker contributor Dorothy Wickenden posed this question during
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