Aretha Franklin, Sexual Violence, and the “Culture of Dissemblance”
Many have proposed that Black American cultural expressions created in the New World — jazz, the blues, gospel, R&B, the
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Slavery, Land Ownership, and Black Women’s Community Networks
Delia Garlic, a former slave in Virginia, Georgia, and Louisiana knew the worst of slavery, including violent punishment and forced
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The Black Convention Movement and Black Politics in Nineteenth-Century America
African American leaders throughout the nineteenth century recognized the significance of creating and sustaining national organizations that were built upon
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Slavery and a Transnational History of Reparations
Reparations for slavery are arguably the biggest global question facing the African Diaspora in the twenty-first-century. In her new book,
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Slavery and Memory in Charleston, South Carolina
The familiar refrain after the Emmanuel AME massacre on June 17, 2015, was that Dylann Roof, the murderer, was not
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