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The Complex Life of Writer Chester B. Himes

October 15, 2018October 17, 2018 Lavelle Porter archives, black intellectual history, Harlem Renaissance, literature, sexuality

The prologue to Lawrence P. Jackson’s biography of Chester Himes begins with the twenty-five-year-old Himes sitting at a typewriter in

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‘The Dawn of Detroit’: An Interview with Historian Tiya Miles

September 20, 2018September 25, 2018 Alaina E. Roberts African Diaspora, Canada, Detroit, race, slave trade

In today’s post, Alaina E. Roberts, the Dietrich Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of

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James Baldwin’s Ideas and Activism during the 1980s

September 20, 2018September 25, 2018 Aderson Francois black intellectual history, James Baldwin, literature, race, racism

James Baldwin died on November 30, 1987, at his home in Saint Paul de Vence, a small village on the

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Honoring the Sacred Fire of James Cone

September 5, 2018September 8, 2018 Xavier Pickett black politics, blackness, James Cone Forum, liberation theology, religion

*This post is part of our online forum on the Life and Legacy of Dr. James H. Cone. James Cone, the academic father

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On the Passing of Historian Sterling Stuckey, 1932-2018

August 31, 2018September 4, 2018 John Bracey, Jr. civil rights, slavery

I first met Sterling Stuckey in Chicago fifty-five years ago. In the Spring of 1963, Sterling and a group of high school teachers and

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