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Donald Trump’s Old Deal for Black America

January 29, 2017February 1, 2017 Jessica Ann Levy capitalism, Donald Trump, Politics, presidents, racism

On January 20, 2017, the world watched—many in horror—as Donald Trump was officially sworn in as the forty-fifth president of

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Black-Owned Bookstores: Anchors of the Black Power Movement

January 28, 2017January 30, 2017 Joshua Clark Davis black nationalism, black politics, Pan-Africanism

In the summer of 1968, veteran members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) opened a shop in Washington, D.C.,

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O.J. Simpson, Ex-Colored Man

June 29, 2016June 28, 2016 Brandon Byrd

What would it mean to live beyond the color line? To live unencumbered by race; by blackness? Black novelists have

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Black Childhood and the Freedom to Play

June 5, 2016June 4, 2016 Guest Poster

The following is a guest post from Dr. Janaka Bowman Lewis, Assistant Professor of English at the University of North

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Summer Reading With W. E. B. Du Bois

May 18, 2016May 23, 2016 Phillip Luke Sinitiere

As part of my ongoing research on the life, thought, and history of W. E. B. Du Bois, this month

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