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State v. Mann: Lydia’s Journey

February 23, 2022February 22, 2022 Sally Greene Black women, Freedom Suits, law, North Carolina, slavery

Naturally, we don’t know her full name. That we know her at all is only because of a gun aimed

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Tuskegee’s Civilizing Mission

February 21, 2022February 20, 2022 Kenneth Smith black internationalism, Pan-Africanism

From his academic career at the Hampton Institute (1872-1875) in Virginia until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington preached

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Deciphering the Ancestral Common Ground of Black Religion

February 17, 2022February 16, 2022 James Padilioni Jr #PewResearchForum, Black church, Black Religion, Islam, Prayer, Vodoo

*This post is part of our online forum with the Pew Research Center. Pew Research Center headlines herald, “generational patterns are changing,”

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On Black Religion and Domestic Globalization

February 16, 2022February 15, 2022 Sherman A. Jackson #PewResearchForum, Black Christianity, Black church, black muslims, Black Religion, Nation of Islam

*This post is part of our online forum with the Pew Research Center.   “Faith Among Black Americans” raises a number of

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Crossing the Ecclesiastical Color Line: Black Churchgoers in Multiracial Congregations

February 14, 2022February 13, 2022 Jemar Tisby #AAIHSRoundtable, #PewResearchForum, religion

*This post is part of our online forum with the Pew Research Center.  A massive study of Black churchgoers by

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