Booker T. Washington and the White Fear of Black Charisma
First, the crowd gathered at the Atlanta Exposition on September 18, 1895, heard the band play “Dixie”; then they listened
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Black Internationalism, Booker T. Washington, and the German Empire in Africa
This is a guest post by Marius Kothor, a PhD student in the Department of History at the University of
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Black Journalist T. Thomas Fortune Prophetically Predicts Today’s Political Climate
Civil rights activist and journalist T. Thomas Fortune was one of the most eloquent and instrumental voices of black America
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The Expansion of Soul Foods
It was Amiri Baraka who said a “Harvard Negro” wouldn’t know how to get down, and Ebony’s Freda DeKnight who said we
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Food, Life, and Leisure: A CBFS Interview
Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black
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