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Rosalyn Terborg-Penn’s African Feminist Theory and Praxis

October 21, 2019October 20, 2019 Sasha Turner #RosalynTerborgPenn, African Diaspora, black feminism, Black women, Caribbean, education, Gender, race, slavery

*This post is part of our online forum organized by Stephen G. Hall honoring the life and work of Dr. Rosalyn

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Black Patriotism and Black Death in the Aftermath of the American Revolution

October 16, 2019October 9, 2019 Adam McNeil black soldiers, capitalism, freedom, military, race, Racial Capitalism, slavery

On June 15, 1776, Lucretia Pritchett petitioned the Virginia Convention seeking reparations for the deceased enslaved man over whom she

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Online Forum: Honoring the Life and Work of Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

October 14, 2019October 14, 2019 AAIHS Editors #RosalynTerborgPenn, aaihs, forum

October 21–24, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum honoring the life

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Diasporic Salutations and the West African Origins of the ‘Dap’

October 14, 2019October 9, 2019 Tyler Parry African Diaspora, popular culture, Resistance, slavery

Until recently, the salutations of Black America were an anomaly to mainstream white Americans. The verbal expressions, hand gestures, and

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A Complicitous Critique: Reading Dwayne McDuffie’s ‘Icon’ in the Wake of ‘The Death of Superman’

October 10, 2019October 6, 2019 Phillip L. Cunningham #MilestoneMedia, Black women, comic books, comics, race

*This post is part of our online forum on the Black-owned and -controlled Milestone Media. The year 1993 proved a

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