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Black or Gay: Meditations on Marlon Riggs’s Tongues Untied at 30

July 30, 2019July 30, 2019 Lavelle Porter #TonguesUntied30, art, Black film, Black Queers, film, Gender, LGBT, race, sexuality

*This post is part of our online forum to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of Marlon Riggs’s groundbreaking film, Tongues Untied. “Priorities. That’s

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Radical Blackness and Mutual Comradeship at 409 Edgecombe

July 16, 2019July 7, 2019 Charisse Burden-Stelly Activism, Black Marxism, black politics, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Black women, Communism, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, New York, race

In the first half of the twentieth century, Sugar Hill was the premier Black neighborhood in New York City that

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Lift Every Voice and Sing: On The Power of the Black National Anthem

July 4, 2019July 3, 2019 Erica Ball education, James Weldon Johnson, music, NAACP, segregation

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a song that most Black Americans of my generation know so deeply that it

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Flavors of Florida: Zora Neale Hurston’s Black Folk Ecologies

July 1, 2019June 21, 2019 James Padilioni Jr African Diaspora, Black Ecologies, black intellectual history, Black women, Caribbean, ethnography, Jim Crow, Zora Neale Hurston

While Zora Neale Hurston’s innovative ethnographic methodologies — including first-hand accounts of her own hoodoo/voodoo initiations — are celebrated by white

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Dressed in Dreams: A New Book about the Power of Black Fashion

June 25, 2019June 24, 2019 J. T. Roane Activism, art, Black women, fashion, Gender, Resistance

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

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