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Mapping Black Antiquity

November 11, 2021November 11, 2021 Sarah Derbew africa, Antiquity, classics, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greek, Rome

Consider the vagaries surrounding the label “antiquity”: whose antiquity do you imagine to be the norm? Greece? Rome? Africa? For

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Hair Discrimination, Anti-Black Racism, and Resistance

October 26, 2021October 25, 2021 Adele N. Norris Gender, race

This is the second of a two-part series about discrimination and Black hair. For part one, click here.  The politics

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Hair Discrimination and Global Politics of Anti-Blackness, Part 1

October 19, 2021October 18, 2021 Adele Norris black feminism, black hair, black identity, Black Power, Black women, black youth

  Recent cases of Black hair/style regulation and punishment in Britain, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States reveal

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Baseball and Black American Memory

October 15, 2021October 14, 2021 Robert Greene II Baseball, Jackie Robinson, Major League Baseball, Memory, Negro Leagues

October in the United States means the arrival of the Major League Baseball (MLB) playoffs. Arguably more than any other

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Lawrence Reddick and the Communal Acts of Black History

October 7, 2021October 6, 2021 Stephen G. Hall academia, black intellectual history, Black Power, Black Reconstruction, Higher education

African American history has always been a communal act. From its inception in the nineteenth century, Black men and women,

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