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Black Genealogy After Alex Haley’s Roots

June 17, 2022June 16, 2022 Menika Dirkson africa, Alex Haley, Genealogy, Roots, television, West Africa

“A lot has been stolen from Black Americans. A lot has been hidden from Black Americans. And so there is

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Seeing May Ayim through Her Friends’ Eyes

June 13, 2022June 12, 2022 Tiffany Florvil black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black women

Black German poet and activist May Ayim would have turned sixty-two years old on May 3. She was born in

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Self-Revision as Praxis

June 7, 2022June 16, 2022 Sherry Johnson #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackWomenBio, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Black women

The ax forgets, but the tree remembers. – African proverb “Forgetting is the true death.” – Mama Koko Zauditu Selassie,

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Ebony Magazine, Black Baseball and Identity in America

April 7, 2022April 6, 2022 Robert Greene II Baseball, Ebony Magazine, Hank Aaron, Major League Baseball, Willie Mays

Baseball’s Opening Day offers an opportunity to once again consider the relationship between America’s pastime and Black thought in American

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Racism as Theory: A Historiography of White Supremacy Ideology

April 1, 2022April 1, 2022 Bala James Baptiste Historiography, ideology, oppression, race, racism, white supremacy

This historiography theorizes racism as applicable to an explanation of why decision-makers at major white organizations waited until the late

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