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Creating Digital Space for Black Scholarship

October 17, 2019October 9, 2019 Black Book Interactive Project Scholars archives, black intellectual history, digital media, education, literature

This year, within a week, we lost two geniuses: Toni Morrison and Paule Marshall. But at least their words circulate,

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Black Patriotism and Black Death in the Aftermath of the American Revolution

October 16, 2019October 9, 2019 Adam McNeil black soldiers, capitalism, freedom, military, race, Racial Capitalism, slavery

On June 15, 1776, Lucretia Pritchett petitioned the Virginia Convention seeking reparations for the deceased enslaved man over whom she

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Jessye Norman and The Struggle for Black Pathos

October 15, 2019October 15, 2019 Kwame Holmes art, Black women, eugenics, Gender, music, white supremacy

soll ich lauschen?                        Shall I listen? Soll ich schlürfen,                       Shall I drink, untertauchen?                             immerse? Süß in Düften                           

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Online Forum: Honoring the Life and Work of Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

October 14, 2019October 14, 2019 AAIHS Editors #RosalynTerborgPenn, aaihs, forum

October 21–24, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum honoring the life

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‘I’m just a kid’: Representation in Milestone Comics’ ‘Icon’

October 11, 2019October 6, 2019 Matthew Teutsch #MilestoneMedia, black childhood, comic books, comics, MEDIA, race, youth

*This post is part of our online forum on the Black-owned and -controlled Milestone Media. In the 1970s, when the

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