Thinking About the ‘X’
As the year winds down, I find myself, like my AAIHS colleague Noelle Trent, reflecting on 2015, on conversations that
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Women
Uncovering the Silences of Black Women’s Voices in the Age of Garvey
Today is the seventh day of our roundtable on Adam Ewing’s book, The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist
Read moreWhat’s Past is Present: Teaching Black Student Protest at Duke
As Dr. Ibram X. Kendi wrote in his recent post on black student protest, the Black Campus Movement of the 1960s was
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Black Mothers and the Birth Control Movement
This is a guest post by Destiny Crockett, an undergraduate student at Princeton University, majoring in English and minoring in
Read more“The Power and Importance of Ideas:” Grace Lee Boggs’s Revolutionary Vision
In the opening lines of her autobiography, Living for Change, Grace Lee Boggs remarked: “Had I not been born female
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