On the Life of Black Abolitionist Anna Murray Douglass
*This post is part of our online forum on the life of Frederick Douglass. “She drew around herself a certain reserve,” Rosetta
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‘New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition’: A New Book on Black Thinkers in the US and Abroad
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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The Contours of Black Intellectual History
This is an excerpt of the introduction to New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition (Northwestern University Press, 2018) edited by Keisha N.
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s Vision of American Democracy
Martin Luther King Jr. approached history with a reverent understanding of the complex relationship between the secular and the sacred.
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Documenting Racial Violence Through Photography
Earlier this year, John Ira Jennings and Damian Duffy’s graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Kindred (1979) won the 2018
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