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“Abolition of Every Possibility of Oppression”: The Black Women’s United Front

November 5, 2016June 19, 2017 Ashley Farmer

On January 25, 1975, over five hundred activists gathered in Detroit, Michigan to discuss the position of women in the

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Women and the 1956 Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris

November 3, 2016April 2, 2017 Merve Fejzula #WomenandPanAfricanismSeries, Pan-Africanism, Paris

*This is the seventh post in our blog series on Women, Gender and Pan-Africanism edited by Keisha N. Blain. Blog

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Black Leaders in Academia: An Interview with Barbara Savage

November 2, 2016November 1, 2016 Chris Cameron #blackleadersseries, Black Leaders, Black women, Professional Development

Today I continue an interview series on black leaders in academia. The interviews will take place once a month and

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Slavery, Migration, and Narratives of the Black Pacific

October 28, 2016November 29, 2016 Guy Emerson Mount Antigua, black internationalism

In 1803, on a small tropical island surrounded by beautiful oceans and relentless sugar plantations, a baby was born. The

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Braveheart for Black People: A Review of Birth of a Nation

October 25, 2016October 24, 2016 Alden Young Black film, Nate Parker, The Birth of a Nation

I was invited to see Nate Parker’s dramatic retelling of Nat Turner’s 1831 rebellion right before it opened to the

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