Toward the Preservation of Black Joy in Public Memory
Representations of Black experiences remain frustratingly narrow in public commemoration efforts across the U.S. For many decades, and especially in
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Visuality
Black Genealogy After Alex Haley’s Roots
“A lot has been stolen from Black Americans. A lot has been hidden from Black Americans. And so there is
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W.E.B. Du Bois and the Aesthetics of Emancipation
“I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty and for Beauty to set the
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Race, Environmental Justice, and DOCUMERICA at 50
In April of this year at a press conference staged in front of the National Mall, Democratic Party politicians Ed
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Expanding the Digital Black Atlantic
*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” The essays published in the Digital Black Atlantics forum this
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