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The Untethered Tongue: Lifting the Black Feminine Voice in Jazz

December 16, 2022December 27, 2022 Sandra Booker Billie Holiday, jazz, music, Nina Simone, Women

What is freedom? Freedom is existing unrestrained in thoughts, actions, and achievements but is not absolved from the world’s reactions

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Julia W. Garnet’s Civil War Activism

December 14, 2022December 14, 2022 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. Activism, Black women, Civil War, Julia Williams Garnet, mutual Aid

Throughout the American Civil War male proponents (Black and white) of mobilizing United States Colored Troops (USCT) regiments viewed military

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“The times requires this testimony”: William Still’s The Underground Railroad

December 5, 2022December 4, 2022 Julia W. Bernier Activism, slavery

William Still, the leader of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society (PAS) Vigilance Committee, kept meticulous records on the hundreds of women

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Margaret Walker’s Business during The Antebellum Era

November 23, 2022November 22, 2022 Anne Kerth antebellum, Black women, Free people of color, Margaret Walker, slavery

Throughout the Antebellum era, the institution of slavery worked to strip Black women of their humanity and human rights and

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Immunity, Capitalism, and the Antebellum New Orleans

November 22, 2022November 18, 2022 Maniza Ahmed racism, slavery

Many believed that Union soldiers stationed in New Orleans, Louisiana, would soon die. Both Union soldiers and city residents expected

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