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Slavery and the Family Tree

May 15, 2019May 14, 2019 Whitney Stewart Historical Memory, race, Racial Violence, racism, slavery, South

How do you make a family tree when you may not know your family history? Beyond the very real physical

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The Rich Legacy of African American Political and Intellectual History

March 19, 2019March 31, 2019 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, black internationalism, black lives matter, Black political thought, Black women, book review

In 1962, the magazine Negro Digest published a blistering critique of African American intellectuals by the sociologist E. Franklin Frazier. Titled, “The

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Shirley Graham Du Bois’s Labor of Love

March 12, 2019August 12, 2022 Britt Rusert #ShirleyGrahamDuBois, Activism, black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Shirley Graham Du Bois to recognize the anniversary of her passing in March 1977. The

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Shirley Graham Du Bois’s Biographical Writings

March 11, 2019August 12, 2022 Bettina Aptheker #ShirleyGrahamDuBois, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black women

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Shirley Graham Du Bois to recognize the anniversary of her passing in March 1977. The

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‘Force and Freedom’: A New Book About Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence

February 1, 2019March 31, 2019 J. T. Roane abolitionism

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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