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Rosewood Massacre at 100: Black Florida History and White Terror

February 27, 2023February 26, 2023 Dan Royles Racial Violence, racism

A version of the following comments was delivered at the opening of the exhibit An Elegy to Rosewood at the

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John Hope Franklin and WWII as a Crisis of Democracy

January 19, 2023January 13, 2023 Thomas Cryer #BlackIntellectualDemocracy, black intellectuals, Historians, John Hope Franklin, World War II

This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. Since its 1947 publication, extensive literature

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James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, and the Ever-Deferred Dream

January 17, 2023January 17, 2023 Amy Kittelstrom #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackIntellectualDemocracy, black intellectual history

This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. Once Africans began being forced onto

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The Untethered Tongue: Lifting the Black Feminine Voice in Jazz

December 16, 2022December 27, 2022 Sandra Booker Billie Holiday, jazz, music, Nina Simone, Women

What is freedom? Freedom is existing unrestrained in thoughts, actions, and achievements but is not absolved from the world’s reactions

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“The times requires this testimony”: William Still’s The Underground Railroad

December 5, 2022December 4, 2022 Julia W. Bernier Activism, slavery

William Still, the leader of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society (PAS) Vigilance Committee, kept meticulous records on the hundreds of women

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