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Storytelling and Racial Healing

September 18, 2017September 21, 2017 Celeste Henery black internationalism, Civil Rights Movement, Frederick Douglass, racism

I recently returned from a storytelling school in a small coastal town on the North Channel of Northern Ireland. I

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The Making of Black Lives Matter: A New Book on the Movement’s History

June 17, 2017June 20, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi #BlackLivesMatter, Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, police brutality, Politics

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

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Gerald Horne’s Insurgent African Diaspora

June 7, 2017June 12, 2017 Jessica Marie Johnson #Horne, archives, black internationalism, slave trade

This post is part of our online roundtable on Gerald Horne’s Black Radical History In 2011, Gerald Horne, reflecting on

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Fugitive Science: A New Book on Scientific Racism in America

May 6, 2017May 9, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black intellectual history, Frederick Douglass, racism, racist ideas

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

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On Performance and Black Theatre: An Interview with Playwright Nina Angela Mercer

April 29, 2017May 2, 2017 J. T. Roane theater

This interview is based on an oral history that I collected with Washington, D.C.-grown and Bronx, New York-based playwright Nina

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