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Constructions of Africa in Early Soviet Children’s Literature

October 31, 2017November 4, 2017 Raquel G. Greene Black October, literature, Russian Revolution

This post is part of our online forum, “Black October,” on the Russian Revolution and the African Diaspora The political and social

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The Russian Revolution, Africa and the Diaspora

October 30, 2017November 2, 2017 Hakim Adi Black October, Communism, Russian Revolution

This post is part of our online forum, “Black October,” on the Russian Revolution and the African Diaspora From the time of

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Black Mobility, Law, and Freedom

October 27, 2017October 30, 2017 Jessica Parr Activism, freedom, law, slavery, travel

In 1849, an unnamed Missouri slave owner took a male slave to California to search for gold. Two years later,

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The Still Rejected Strain; or How Black Thought is Enough

October 25, 2017October 27, 2017 Josh Myers black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Harold Cruse

*This post is part of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967). Click here to

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Charter Schools and the Black Independent School Movement

October 23, 2017October 25, 2017 Raven Moses Activism, black nationalism, teaching

In October 2016, the NAACP issued a formal statement advocating a national cessation of charter school expansion pending increased oversight

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