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Revisiting Lerone Bennett Jr.’s ‘Forced Into Glory’

September 10, 2020September 17, 2020 E. James West Abraham Lincoln

The work of popular historian Lerone Bennett Jr. falls within a longer ‘anti-Lincoln tradition’ of African American intellectual thought–a tradition

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W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History

September 3, 2020August 28, 2020 Edward Carson African Diaspora, black radical tradition, Black radicalism

In 2018, scholars celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of W.E.B. Du Bois via published essays, symposiums, and commemorative

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African American Women and the Building of Educational Institutions

August 17, 2020August 16, 2020 N’Kosi Oates education

In 1865, just months after the Civil War had ended, the Colored People’s Educational Monument Association (CPEMA) worked to establish

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“This Is Chaos:” Order Maintenance and the Fear of Black Anarchy in Atlanta

June 23, 2020June 21, 2020 Danielle Wiggins Atlanta, sexuality, youth

Late on May 30, 2020, Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms rose to national notoriety with a passionate speech that rebuked not

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“An Oasis in Turbulent Times”: Black Towns, Black Futures

May 7, 2020May 3, 2020 Camille Goldmon blackness, entrepreneurs, Historical Memory

Mound Bayou, Mississippi, founded by Isaiah T. Montgomery—formerly enslaved by Joseph Davis—and his relative Benjamin Green, tells a story of

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