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Women’s History Month: The Legacy of the Fight over the 15th Amendment

March 2, 2015March 2, 2015 Noelle Trent Fifteenth Amendment, Frederick Douglass

                     During the past week, Patricia Arquette’s comments during her Oscars acceptance speech have ignited debate across

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On “Transpacific Antiracism”: An Interview with Yuichiro Onishi

February 26, 2015February 25, 2015 Keisha N. Blain Afro-Asia, Japan, W.E.B. Du Bois

This post is the second of a series on Afro-Asia in which I explore the myriad political strategies, alliances, and

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Insanity, the Historian, and the Slave Catcher: “Capturing” Black Voices

February 15, 2015February 17, 2015 Greg Childs

First an episode from nineteenth-century Brazil: in 1895 Raimundo Nina Rodrigues, a forensic psychiatrist at the University of Bahia in

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The “Black Republic:” The Meaning of Haitian Independence before the Occupation

February 13, 2015February 13, 2015 Brandon Byrd

This is the second entry in a series on the centennial of the U.S. occupation of Haiti. The introduction to

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Dispatches from Shondalandia by a Slavery Historian (Vol. 2)

February 12, 2015February 12, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson black feminism, feminism, law, reconstruction, slavery

“I am not yours.” – Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope, Scandal 2 X 3 “You might be Command, Dad, but

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