The American Revolution and the Hope of Black People
The recent convergence of publicized anti-black police violence, the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the approaching Presidential
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Free Joan Little: Anti-rape Activism, Black Power, and the Black Freedom Movement
With the news of the Daniel Holtzclaw trial verdict, black women’s sexual assault should be front-page news. This should especially be the case
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Kim F. Hall Chair of English and Professor of Africana Studies at Barnard College Kim F. Hall is the Lucyle
Read moreBook Review: Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County
Last April, I wrote a post for this blog, entitled “Why did Nat Tuner ‘confess‘?” I argued that Turner’s goal
Read moreRethinking Early Slave Literacy
Last month, I wrote about how slaves and free blacks appropriated Euro-American languages and their ability to use them to
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