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Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Miami’s History

March 19, 2018March 22, 2018 Kevin C. Quin Black Queers, Caribbean, Gender, sexuality

Palm trees, ocean breezes, and avenues bursting with glowing neon signs are just a few of the things that comes

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Exposing the Primary Agents and Beneficiaries of Racism

March 7, 2018March 11, 2018 Chad Pearson #MasterlessMen, Racial Violence, racism, reconstruction, slavery, white supremacy

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Ta-Nehisi Coates and members of his fan club must read

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Mississippi’s Civil Rights Museum: Reflections from a Native Daughter

February 14, 2018February 16, 2018 Tiyi Morris Activism, black protest, Black women, civil rights, Donald Trump, racism

Several weeks ago, I attended the opening activities for the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson. The museum represents a long-overdue,

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Radical Black Peace Activism in the Black Liberation Movement

February 12, 2018February 16, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly Anticolonialism, colonialism, imperialism, Soviet Union, Third World Women’s Alliance

On July 4, 1964, the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) wrote a letter to the Vietnamese Front of National Liberation congratulating

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New Directions in Black Women’s History

February 5, 2018February 8, 2018 Sasha Turner Black women, black women scholars, slavery

The New Directions in Female Bondage roundtable at this year’s Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA), featured the recent

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