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Charles Burnett and the Significance of Black Independent Cinema

October 2, 2017October 4, 2017 Justin Gomer Black film, film, poverty, television, white supremacy

When Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight won the best picture Oscar earlier this year, I shared my optimism on this blog about the

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Memory, Experience, and Imagination in Black Religion

September 28, 2017September 30, 2017 Chernoh Sesay Jr. #AAIHSRoundtable, #NewWorld, black internationalism, black nationalism, Garveyism, Great Migration, Immigration, Nation of Islam, religion

This post is part of our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial

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Race, Necropower, and Natural Disasters

September 23, 2017September 27, 2017 Dan Royles carceral state, environment, race

In the last month, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma devastated Texas and Florida, killing scores of people and leaving many more

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Bringing Archives of Death and Life into the Classroom

September 21, 2017September 23, 2017 James Padilioni Jr black intellectual history, teaching

This fall I am teaching African American History Since 1863, starting with the event of Emancipation as a legal-juridical happening

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Remembering Afro-German Intellectual May Ayim

September 6, 2017September 9, 2017 Tiffany Florvil African Diaspora, Black Europe, black feminism, Black German, black intellectual history, black women's internationalism, poetry

It has been almost twenty-one years since Black German activist, educator, writer, and public intellectual May Ayim died on August

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