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A Response to Black Studies Readers, Dancers, Students, and Teachers

May 22, 2023May 19, 2023 Jafari Sinclaire Allen #AAIHSRoundtable, sexuality

This post is part of our online roundtable on Jafari S. Allen’s There’s a Disco Ball Between Us. “Crossings,” M. Jacqui Alexander reminds

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Slavery and Disability in Antebellum America

May 4, 2023May 3, 2023 Christopher D. E. Willoughby antebellum, book review, disability, Gender, slavery

In 1794, U.S. inventor Eli Whitney patented a new type of cotton gin that could remove seeds from short staple

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Black Resistance and Lynching Memory: An Interview with Mari N. Crabtree Part II

May 3, 2023August 7, 2023 Menika Dirkson art, interview, lynching, Memory, methods

Today’s post is the second part of Black Perspectives’ regular contributor, Menika Dirkson interview of Mari N. Crabtree on her

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In Afeni’s Shadow: the Impact of Trauma on a Revolutionary Life

May 1, 2023April 30, 2023 Cheryl X. Dong Activism, Black Power, black radical tradition, Black women

Tupac Shakur wrote  “Dear Mama” to celebrate his mother’s strength and plea for her love.  The song is an unfiltered

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Correcting the Anti-Black Civil War Commemorative Landscape in Harrisburg, PA

April 27, 2023April 25, 2023 Hilary Green Civil War, Commemoration, Memory, Pennsylvania, USCT

This post is part of our online forum on Black Military Families in the Nineteenth Century. Dedicated during the national reckoning of

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