‘New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition’: A New Book on Black Thinkers in the US and Abroad
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Documenting Racial Violence Through Photography
Earlier this year, John Ira Jennings and Damian Duffy’s graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Kindred (1979) won the 2018
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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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Richard Greener, First Black Graduate of Harvard College
In 1911, Richard Greener was introduced to an audience as “‘the first colored graduate of Harvard,’ ‘ex-Consul to Russia,’ and ‘the
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Black Rights and Black Citizenship in Antebellum Baltimore
Throughout my life, I have grappled with the precarious and vulnerable nature of Black life in the United States and
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