The Tears, Struggles, and Hopes of Black Women
A video of Angela Davis’s reception in Bahia, Brazil this summer captures a moment of unbridled joy. She walks into
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The Still Rejected Strain; or How Black Thought is Enough
*This post is part of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967). Click here to
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Charter Schools and the Black Independent School Movement
In October 2016, the NAACP issued a formal statement advocating a national cessation of charter school expansion pending increased oversight
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The Subversive Praxis of Black Beauty and Wealth
Having rocked the cosmetics industry last month with her new line of products, Fenty Beauty, pop star Rihanna (née Robyn
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The Black Press and the Ku Klux Klan
“Crouching, cringing, shrinking from both physical and intellectual light,” Chandler Owen wrote, “the Klan is a true anthropoid germ which
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