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Capturing the Spirit of Black Pittsburgh: A Review of “Fences”

January 3, 2017January 5, 2017 Larry Glasco Black film, Jim Crow, poverty, sports

Just after Christmas, I went to see “Fences,” Denzel Washington’s film adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning play. I went with

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The Defender: A New Book on Chicago’s Legendary Black Newspaper

January 3, 2017January 5, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi Chicago, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement

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

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Black Europe: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis

December 20, 2016December 19, 2016 Guest Poster Black Studies

Co-authored by Kennetta Hammond Perry and Kira Thurman On the cover of the October 6 issue of Tip Magazine, a

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5 Must Read Books of 2016 by Black Millennials

December 18, 2016January 2, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi

Nation Books recently asked me to compile a list of holiday book recommendations, or a list of some of my favorite

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Locating Black Queer Pasts

December 13, 2016August 11, 2018 J. T. Roane

Black queer histories—those that index the forms of social life that have flourished in the shadows created by state-sponsored violence,

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