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The History of Black Women and Violence

September 27, 2023September 14, 2023 Chinaza Okonkwo Black women, book review, domestic violence, medical racism, violence

Anti-blackness, including the violent events our society typically invokes when reflecting on racism, often centers on the violence inflicted on

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The Afterlives of Migration in Panama and its Diaspora

May 29, 2023May 27, 2023 Sharika D. Crawford #AAIHSRoundtable, #PanamaInBlack, black internationalism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Kaysha Corinealdi’s Panama in Black. In the last decades of the nineteenth

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Conversations in Black Freedom Studies: An Interview

February 28, 2023February 26, 2023 Lucien Baskin black intellectual history, CBFS, Civil Rights Movement

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

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Immunity, Capitalism, and the Antebellum New Orleans

November 22, 2022November 18, 2022 Maniza Ahmed racism, slavery

Many believed that Union soldiers stationed in New Orleans, Louisiana, would soon die. Both Union soldiers and city residents expected

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The Local Politics of Fannie Lou Hamer

October 6, 2022October 4, 2022 Stefan Bradley #UntilIAmFree, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, democracy, Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi, SNCC

This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Until I Am Free. By age 44, most people

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