Search Results for: Black Lives Matter

Rust Belt Resilience: The History of Buffalo’s Colored Musicians Club

May 19, 2022May 18, 2022 Tiana U. Wilson black lives matter, Black radicalism, Civil Rights Movement, white supremacy

When I first heard of the Buffalo mass shooting from my residence in California, I immediately reached out to my

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W.E.B. Du Bois and the Aesthetics of Emancipation

April 21, 2022April 20, 2022 Clay Matlin art, artistic production, Beauty, black artists, W.E.B. Du Bois

“I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty and for Beauty to set the

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Paul Robeson–The Revolutionary

February 8, 2022February 7, 2022 Tony Pecinovsky Activism, black intellectual history, Black radicalism

It was reported in his New York Times obituary that Paul Robeson became a “virtual recluse” by the time of his death

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The Familial Fight Against Racism

November 17, 2021November 16, 2021 Holly Pinheiro antebellum, Civil War, Gender, labor, Pennsylvania, United States Colored Troops, USCT

  The Civil War remains one of the most discussed and published historical topics. Often, public and academic discourse on

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Lil Nas X: the AIDS Activist Gen Z Needs

September 23, 2021September 21, 2021 Dan Royles Activism, black protest

Lil Nas X’s performance at the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards was—as fans have come to expect—a virtuosic entry in

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