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Black Women, the Civil War, and United States Colored Troops

July 20, 2021July 19, 2021 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. Activism, Black women, Resistance

  In 1887, William J. Simmons, a United States Colored Troops (USCT) veteran turned historian, expressed his gratitude to Black

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How Hollywood Has Ignored the Haitian Revolution

July 16, 2021July 15, 2021 Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall Black film, film, Haiti, Haitian Revolution

African Americans have long been interested in Haiti.1 Decades before the so-called “Haitian turn” of the twenty-first century in US

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Anti-Blackness and College Football

July 15, 2021July 15, 2021 Tracie Canada black protest, Gender, NCAA, South, Sport

Wide receiver Jaylen Waddle was selected #6 by the Miami Dolphins in the 2021 NFL Draft. During his post-selection press conference,

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Black Women and American Freedom in Revolutionary America

July 13, 2021July 13, 2021 Karen Cook Bell black intellectual history, Black women, Resistance

What is the price of freedom? Is it worth the cost if failure means a return to slavery or death?

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Melissa N. Shaw

Melissa N. Shaw is a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University studying the university’s connection to slavery and colonization. In fall 2022,

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