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Writing Black Activist Lives: An CBFS Interview

March 28, 2023March 26, 2023 Lucien Baskin Black Power, black protest, Black women

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black

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Black Religious Fostering of American Civic Ideals

January 20, 2023January 16, 2023 R. Drew Smith #BlackIntellectualDemocracy, Black Christianity, democracy, Faith, Marian Wright Edelman, Martin Luther King Jr.

This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. Black Christians have been key agents

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“The Families’ Civil War”: An Author’s Response

January 13, 2023January 9, 2023 Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. #FamiliesCivilWar, #Roundtable, Author Response, Black Family, Civil War

This post is part of our online roundtable on Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s The Families’ Civil War. Even though the Civil

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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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Billie Holiday and the Black Arts Movement

December 7, 2022December 5, 2022 Whit Frazier Peterson Billie Holiday, Black Arts Movement, Blues, jazz, music

The Black Arts Movement (BAM) was a controversial, politically charged cultural uprising, which James Smethurst, in his eponymous study of

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