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Rendezvous with Freedom

April 23, 2016April 23, 2016 Christopher Bonner Harriet Tubman

“Change for a $20” read news blurbs on Wednesday, with the announcement that Harriet Tubman will appear on U.S. currency.

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Student Evaluations, Race, Politics, and “American Values”

April 7, 2016April 6, 2016 Chernoh Sesay Jr. black intellectual history, black politics, teaching

At the end of every term, with great trepidation, meditative breathing, and perhaps even a homemade cocktail, I look to

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The Mysterious Thelma X and the Struggle of Black Domestic Workers

April 3, 2016April 3, 2016 Garrett Felber black nationalism, Black women, Nation of Islam

Several years ago, I was looking through the papers of sociologist C. Eric Lincoln at the Robert W. Woodruff Library

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The ‘Capitalized Womb’: A Review of Ned and Constance Sublette’s The American Slave Coast

March 31, 2016March 31, 2016 Kellie Carter Jackson black politics, Black women, slavery

Recently, I was asked to sit on a panel at the CUNY Graduate Center to discuss Ned & Constance Sublette’s

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Thoughts on Underground

March 18, 2016March 17, 2016 Noelle Trent

Warning this post contains spoilers I first heard about WGN America’s Underground back in October, shortly after I started working

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