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The Defender: A New Book on Chicago’s Legendary Black Newspaper

January 3, 2017January 5, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi Chicago, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement

This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Christmas and Resistance to Slavery in the Americas

December 23, 2016April 21, 2017 Yesenia Barragan Christmas, Colombia, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman

It was a humid Christmas day in 1820 when twenty-five-year-old Santiago Martínez presented himself before the army commander stationed in

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Black Europe: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis

December 20, 2016December 19, 2016 Guest Poster Black Studies

Co-authored by Kennetta Hammond Perry and Kira Thurman On the cover of the October 6 issue of Tip Magazine, a

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White Supremacy Is Not an Illness

December 15, 2016January 4, 2017 Guest Poster

*Co-Authored by Christopher Petrella and Justin Gomer A few weeks ago, we convened and moderated a “justice and equity” reading

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Hidden Human Computers: A New Young Adult Book on NASA’s Black Women

December 15, 2016January 2, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black feminism, black intellectual history, Black women, teaching

This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am editing that announces the publication of selected

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