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Black Fists, Black Pride, and the 1968 Summer Olympics

November 7, 2018November 11, 2018 Louis Moore Activism, black politics, Black Power, black protest, Civil Rights Movement, Resistance

Black fists. Black men. Black pride. That’s how we will always remember bronze medalist John Carlos and gold medalist Tommie

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Black Rebellion and the Political Imaginations of African American Teachers

November 5, 2018November 11, 2018 Jarvis R. Givens black radical tradition, Black radicalism, education, Harriet Tubman, Nat Turner, teaching

Nat Turner became an impromptu topic of discussion in my third grade classroom. Ms. Todman had a way of getting

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German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture

November 2, 2018November 3, 2018 Jamele Watkins African Diaspora, Black Europe, Germany, masculinity

Black German Studies has focused on women’s writing over the past thirty years. Priscilla Layne’s White Rebels in Black is

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A Black Womanist Requiem for Katie G. Cannon

October 31, 2018November 3, 2018 Eboni Marshall Turman Black women, black women scholars, race, religion

Katie G. Cannon’s untimely death, has compelled me to begin this reflection at the funeral. Not hers; but my first funeral

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Slavery, Land Ownership, and Black Women’s Community Networks

October 25, 2018November 3, 2018 Karen Cook Bell Black women, Gender, race, slavery

Delia Garlic, a former slave in Virginia, Georgia, and Louisiana knew the worst of slavery, including violent punishment and forced

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