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Black Power in Papua New Guinea

October 17, 2017October 21, 2017 Quito J. Swan Black Arts Movement, Black Power

The Black Power Movement stretched across the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific ocean worlds in both expected and surprising ways. Scholarship

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Beyond Monuments: African Americans Contesting Civil War Memory

October 16, 2017October 21, 2017 Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders Activism, Civil War, Historical Memory, racism, Resistance, white supremacy

As monuments to white supremacists, slavery-defenders, and Confederate leaders continue to be torn down by politicians or by the people’s

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The Life of Pauli Murray: An Interview with Rosalind Rosenberg

October 16, 2017October 21, 2017 Alyssa Collins black feminism, Black Queers, blackness, Gender, intersectionality, law, religion, sexuality

In today’s post, Alyssa Collins, PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Virginia, interviews Rosalind Rosenberg

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Black Radicalism and the “Tuition-Free” University

October 12, 2017October 16, 2017 Tyler Parry 2016 Presidential Election, Bernie Sanders, Constitution, freedom, integration, South Carolina

During the presidential primaries of 2016, Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders promoted a policy that, for many, was a radical idea.

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Policing Black Lives: A New Book on State Violence in Canada

October 10, 2017October 14, 2017 Julie Hawks Canada, police brutality, police violence

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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