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A Womanist Perspective of the Black Power Movement

April 23, 2018April 28, 2018 Akinyele Umoja #RemakingBlackPower, black feminism, Black Panther Party, black protest, Black women, Gender

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Ashley Farmer’s Remaking Black Power Ashley D. Farmer’s Remaking Black Power:

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W. E. B. Du Bois, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual

April 21, 2018April 24, 2018 Lavelle Porter education, literature, W.E.B. Du Bois

The Quest of the Silver Fleece, published in 1911, is the first of five novels that W. E. B. Du

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Re-Writing Black Gendered Stories

April 17, 2018April 21, 2018 Celeste Henery black feminism, Black women, blackness, Gender

For some years, I’ve written social histories of Black men on death row. The objective is to provide a social

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“Why Aren’t Black People More Optimistic?”

April 13, 2018April 24, 2018 Trimiko Melancon Black film, police brutality, white supremacy

In a 1968 interview, television personality Dick Cavett asked James Baldwin, renowned author-activist, what many white Americans at that time

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On Borders and the Matters of Black Life: A Review of “Seven Seconds”

April 11, 2018April 30, 2018 J. T. Roane film, Jim Crow, police brutality, police violence, Visual Culture

*Editor’s Note: This essay contains spoilers* In the recently released Netflix drama, Seven Seconds, viewers are confronted with a dramatization of

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