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Progressive Movements and the Importance of Failure

May 10, 2018May 13, 2018 Austin McCoy black politics, black protest, civil rights, Resistance

Mary Frances Berry’s History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times could not have arrived

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The Importance of Sarah Forten’s Abolitionist Poetry

May 8, 2018May 13, 2018 Adam McNeil Philadelphia, race, racism

Depictions of slavery in the United States have captivated audiences for centuries. In honor of the recent National Poetry Month

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Black Panther: A Call to Ethiopia

May 5, 2018May 13, 2018 Rachel Gillett #BlackPanther, African Diaspora, film, Pan-Africanism, Resistance

*This post is part of our new blog series on The World of the Black Panther. This series, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter

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The Role of Water in African American History

May 4, 2018May 13, 2018 Tyler Parry slave trade

Flint, Michigan continues to confront a water crisis that, by all accounts, is a human tragedy. In 2014, the state of

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James Baldwin and the 1980s: A New Book on the Iconic Writer’s Last Decade

May 2, 2018May 5, 2018 Phillip Luke Sinitiere black intellectual history, Gender

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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