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Why Black People Believe the End is Near

October 31, 2023October 24, 2023 Benjamin Baker black intellectual history, racism, religion

Recently Pew Research Center released the results of a study on “How Religion Intersects with Americans’ Views on the Environment.” In it,

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The Black Left and Political Repression

October 30, 2023October 29, 2023 Lucien Baskin Black Left, CBFS Interview, interview, Radicalism

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

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Black Reconstruction in the Twenty-First Century

October 24, 2023October 18, 2023 Lacey P. Hunter 19th Century, American Civil War, American Democracy, citizenship, Civil Rights Movement, Voting Rights

  Peniel E. Joseph, The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Basic Books,

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Manuel Zapata Olivella, Mestizaje and Black Politics in 1970s Colombia

October 11, 2023October 8, 2023 Laura Correa Ochoa #raceandlatinamerica, African Diaspora, black internationalism, Pan-Africanism

This post is part of our forum on “Race and Latin America” Pan-Africanism is not typically associated with Colombia or

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Arturo Schomburg, Black Studies, and Social Change

September 28, 2023September 15, 2023 DJ Polite Arturo Schomburg, Black History, Black Studies, John Henrik Clarke

Around 1930, a fifteen-year-old John Henrik Clarke travelled to New York City, New York, anxious to meet Arturo Schomburg at

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