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Black Radicalism and Voices of Resistance

December 16, 2017December 21, 2017 Dan Berger Angela Davis, mass incarceration, Political Prisoners, prisons

First published at the end of 1971, Angela Davis’ If They Come in the Morning is the kind of urgent tract

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Portraits of Black Womanhood

December 14, 2017December 18, 2017 Janell Hobson black feminism, Black women, Gender

When I first encountered Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait d’une Negresse at the Louvre, I had just researched and encountered the remains of

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Black Women’s Efforts to Combat Food Insecurity

December 11, 2017December 14, 2017 Ashley Farmer Activism, Black women, economic justice, food, student activism

Last month, students at Spelman and Morehouse Colleges ended their two-week hunger strike designed to raise awareness about food insecurity

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The Man-Not: A New Book on the Dilemmas of Black Manhood

December 9, 2017December 14, 2017 Julie Hawks rape, sexual violence

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

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Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom

December 8, 2017December 11, 2017 Keisha N. Blain black feminism, black nationalism, Black women, Pan-Africanism

This is an excerpt from Keisha N. Blain’s Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle

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