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Remembering Phillis Wheatley

In my last post, I commented on a specific newspaper piece from the May 18, 1827 edition of Freedom’s Journal,

Last weekend I saw a performance of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins‘ play An Octoroon, which is a reimagining of Dion Boucicault’s The

For centuries, black men and women have struggled for economic, social, and cultural rights under the banner of Pan-Africanism—the political

On October 2, 1962 journalists at the Chicago Defender interviewed Mae Mallory, a prisoner at the Cuyahoga County Jail in

This is a guest post by Dr. Ajamu Nangwaya, an educator in Ontario’s post-secondary educator sector. He has a doctorate in