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From Dessalines to Garvey: the Battles of Psychological Liberation

January 11, 2022January 10, 2022 Kersuze Simeon-Jones African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Haiti

Over two centuries apart, Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Marcus Mosiah Garvey espoused ideas and expounded principles of liberation that descendants of

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Black Remembrance and Racial Violence in New Orleans

December 21, 2021December 20, 2021 Sowande’ M. Mustakeem Jim Crow, Racial Violence

In 1831, Nat Turner—who led a band of bondpeople into insurrection in Southampton, Virginia –was executed, quelling what a great

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Flyboy Meets Guerrilla Scholar

December 16, 2021December 15, 2021 Herb Boyd africa, Greg Tate, music, Robert Farris Thompson, Scholar

Mulling over how to deal with the passing of Robert Farris Thompson, the famed “guerilla scholar,” as he termed himself—he

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(Re)locating Sites of Memory in Appalachia Through Black Spaces and Stories

December 10, 2021December 9, 2021 Kristan McCullum Appalachia, Black Appalachia, desegregation, Kentucky, Memory

“You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for houses and livable acreage. Occasionally the

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Critical Race Theory in Texas

December 8, 2021December 8, 2021 Jennifer Hobson Gormer 1619 Project, Critical Race Theory, CRT, teaching, Texas

The Texas signed the Critical Race Bill into law in summer 2021. Texas is one of many states that prescribes

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