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Civil Rights Playwrights as Black Intellectuals

November 25, 2017November 28, 2017 Julie Burrell civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Harold Cruse, theater

In the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, contributors reaffirmed the significance of

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Black Women’s Voices and the Archive

November 15, 2017November 17, 2017 Halee Robinson archives, Belle Meade Plantation, Black women, Public History, slavery, violence

In 1886, Charles Dudley Warner, a Massachusetts-born writer, traveled to Nashville, Tennessee to learn about the Southern way of life.

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Faith, Myths, and Black Prometheus

November 14, 2017November 16, 2017 David Withun black rebellion, racism, religion, Resistance, slavery, white supremacy

In A Black Theology of Liberation, James H. Cone controversially asserted, “If God is not for us, if God is not

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Black Identity Extremists: COINTELPRO 2017

November 13, 2017November 15, 2017 Robyn C. Spencer black nationalism, Black Panther Party, black politics, Black Power, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, police brutality, white supremacy

On October 6, 2017 an FBI internal report identifying “Black Identity Extremists” (BIE) as a major threat to Law Enforcement

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Centering the Voices of Black Activists in Post-Revolutionary Cuba

November 9, 2017November 13, 2017 Melina Pappademos #AAIHSRoundtable, #AntiracismInCuba, Afro-Cubans, Cuba

This post is part of our online roundtable on Devyn Spence Benson’s Antiracism in Cuba. There are few in the United States who

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