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African Americans’ Civil Cases in the Jim Crow South

November 17, 2017November 20, 2017 Melissa Milewski economic justice, Jim Crow, law, race, South

In 1910, 48-year-old Rebecca Sallee fell into an open hole on a city street in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, as she made

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African American Freedom and the Illusive “Forty Acres and a Mule”

November 16, 2017November 17, 2017 Karen Cook Bell economic justice, landownership, race, racism, reconstruction, Resistance, South

On August 18, 2016, the United Nations Working Group on Experts of People of African Descent determined that the history

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Contesting the Myth of (Revolutionary) Racial Harmony

November 8, 2017November 13, 2017 Yesenia Barragan #AntiracismInCuba, Afro-Cubans, Cuba, race

This post is part of our online roundtable on Devyn Spence Benson’s Antiracism in Cuba. Just three months after revolutionary

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Constructions of Africa in Early Soviet Children’s Literature

October 31, 2017November 4, 2017 Raquel G. Greene Black October, literature, Russian Revolution

This post is part of our online forum, “Black October,” on the Russian Revolution and the African Diaspora The political and social

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The Russian Revolution, Africa and the Diaspora

October 30, 2017November 2, 2017 Hakim Adi Black October, Communism, Russian Revolution

This post is part of our online forum, “Black October,” on the Russian Revolution and the African Diaspora From the time of

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