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Mary Church Terrell’s Influence on Black History Month

February 21, 2024February 20, 2024 Joshua L. Crutchfield black intellectual history, Black women, education

As we celebrate Black History Month, we rightly credit Carter G. Woodson as a pivotal figure who dedicated his life

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The Life of Betsey Stockton

February 20, 2024February 8, 2024 Christopher D. E. Willoughby Black women, book review, religion, slavery

Gregory Nobles’s new book, The Education of Betsey Stockton: An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom, is a tour de force.

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Philadelphia’s ‘Black Shining Prince’

February 13, 2024February 9, 2024 Menika Dirkson Activism, education, Philadelphia

Securely tucked away in the Print Department of The Library Company of Philadelphia’s collection of over 100,000 photographs, maps, drawings,

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The Black Poet’s Journey Through the Iron Curtain

February 6, 2024February 6, 2024 Caio Fernandes Barbosa art, Black Arts, Brazil, poetry, Soviet Union

In late July 1955, after sailing to France and then taking a train to Poland, the Brazilian Black poet Solano

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Dorothy Porter, Archives, and the Preservation of Black Studies

February 5, 2024February 2, 2024 Derrion Arrington African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Black women

The explosive growth of Black studies programs and departments after 1968 triggered a wave of bibliographic scholarship. Colleges, universities, and

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