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Vengeance Feminism: An Interview with Kali Nicole Gross

November 20, 2024November 19, 2024 Keisha N. Blain black feminism, Black women, Black Women's History

In today’s post, Dr. Keisha N. Blain, Professor of Africana Studies and History at Brown University, interviews renowned historian Dr.

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The Rejection of CRT in the Southern Baptist Convention

October 30, 2024October 30, 2024 Rev. Ralph Douglas West Black church, Jim Crow, race, slavery

The May 1995 issue of Christianity Today, included the report of a leading African American voice in the Southern Baptist

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The Troubled History of Medical Harm to Black Women

October 8, 2024October 6, 2024 Savannah Flanagan Black women, medical racism, medicine, motherhood, slavery

In 1805, a Black woman known in the historical record as Pleasant, took a deep breath and pushed her son

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African Americans and the First Black Republic

September 25, 2024September 21, 2024 Sherri V. Cummings black protest, Haiti, Haitian Revolution

It is difficult to talk about Haiti. For the past two months the island nation has been mired in violence

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Traditions of Resistance in the Black Diaspora

September 24, 2024September 21, 2024 Christina Proenza-Coles Activism, black internationalism, Black radicalism

African resistance to American slavery originated at the moment African slavery in the Americas began. The first recorded enslaved Africans

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