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From Concentration Camps to the Senate: Black Women in the French Resistance

March 13, 2017March 16, 2017 Annette Joseph-Gabriel Anticolonialism, Black women, France, Resistance

The role that over a million African soldiers played in World War II has garnered interest in recent years. Calls for countries

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Booker T. Washington and the White Fear of Black Charisma

March 2, 2017March 6, 2017 Jeremy C. Young Barack Obama, black politics, black protest, W.E.B. Du Bois

First, the crowd gathered at the Atlanta Exposition on September 18, 1895, heard the band play “Dixie”; then they listened

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Black Women Doctors in the World of Comics

March 1, 2017March 4, 2017 Darnel Degand #comicsandrace, Black women, comic books, Gender

This guest post is part of our blog series on Comics, Race, and Society, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter

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Man-Child Under the Moonlight: Black Masculinity in the Promised Land

February 28, 2017March 3, 2017 Stephen G. Hall Black film, film, masculinity, sexuality

Sunday night’s mishap at the Oscars, which mistakenly gave the award for Best Picture to La La Land, reflects the

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Black Female Undertakers in 20th-Century Baltimore

February 3, 2017February 4, 2017 Kami Fletcher Baltimore

Historically, the business of black undertaking has been framed as a male success story—focusing on narratives of lone freedmen with

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