Dr. Carlos E. Russell and the Origins of Black Solidarity Day
A young Black woman demonstrator at a rally at the Capitol protests voting rights limitations contained in bills written
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Black Identity and the Power of Self-Naming
Black identity is the most political social identity used to identify people of African descent in the United States. The
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Black Women and Civil War Pensions
By the late-nineteenth-century, Civil War pensions not only comprised a quarter of the federal budget, but they also provided a
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Unmarked and Unburied: the Unsettling of Black Death
The contemporary “discovery” of unmarked graves and unburied bodies of African Americans remains a disturbing reality of the Black experience.
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Bob Moses and the Fighting Spirit of Black Intellectual History
The recent passing of Bob Moses offers a quiet moment to consider the varied lessons intellectual historians—and others—should take from
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