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Voting Is Not A Right of U.S. Citizens: Revisiting the 1866 Civil Rights Act

November 6, 2016November 3, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi civil rights

This piece was originally published in AHA Today, a blog of the American Historical Association, as “The Promise and Peril of

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Decolonizing the Republic: A New Book on African and Caribbean Migrants in Postwar Paris

November 3, 2016January 1, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi France, Immigration, Migration, Paris

This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African

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Black Leaders in Academia: An Interview with Barbara Savage

November 2, 2016November 1, 2016 Chris Cameron #blackleadersseries, Black Leaders, Black women, Professional Development

Today I continue an interview series on black leaders in academia. The interviews will take place once a month and

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Luke Cage and the African American Literary Tradition

November 1, 2016October 31, 2016 Matthew Teutsch #comicsandrace, Luke Cage

This guest post is part of our new blog series on Comics, Race, and Society, edited by Julian Chambliss and

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America’s Enslaved Dead

October 31, 2016October 30, 2016 Brandon Byrd Haiti, Zora Neale Hurston

On Sunday, November 8, 1936, Zora Neale Hurston received the exciting news: there was a zombie at the hospital in

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