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Lift Every Voice and Sing: On The Power of the Black National Anthem

July 4, 2019July 3, 2019 Erica Ball education, James Weldon Johnson, music, NAACP, segregation

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a song that most Black Americans of my generation know so deeply that it

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From Hashtag Activist to Street Protester: An Interview with Bree Newsome Bass

July 2, 2019July 2, 2019 Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt #BlackOrganizingToday, Activism, black lives matter, Black Power, black protest, black radical tradition, Black women, Resistance

This post is part of our Black Organizing Today Series. This series, edited by Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt, consists of interviews

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Flavors of Florida: Zora Neale Hurston’s Black Folk Ecologies

July 1, 2019June 21, 2019 James Padilioni Jr African Diaspora, Black Ecologies, black intellectual history, Black women, Caribbean, ethnography, Jim Crow, Zora Neale Hurston

While Zora Neale Hurston’s innovative ethnographic methodologies — including first-hand accounts of her own hoodoo/voodoo initiations — are celebrated by white

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“Swinging While I’m Singing”: Spike Lee, Public Enemy, and the Message in the Music

June 24, 2019June 22, 2019 Mark Anthony Neal Black film, black politics, film series, hip hop, music, police brutality, race, Resistance, women in film

“1989, a number, another summer, sound of the funky drummer” —Public Enemy, “Fight the Power” The scene may be the

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When John Hope Franklin and Pepsi Made a Black History Record

June 19, 2019June 23, 2019 Joshua Clark Davis Black History Month, black intellectual history, capitalism, Historiography, John Hope Franklin

A decade after his death, John Hope Franklin remains among the most prominent historians to ever chronicle the African American

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