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Untangling Madam C.J. Walker’s Story

May 24, 2019May 24, 2019 A’Lelia Bundles #WalkerCentennial, Activism, black politics, Black women, Gender, Madam CJ Walker

*This post is part of our online forum on Madam C.J. Walker for the centennial anniversary of her death.  As

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On Madam C. J. Walker’s Architecture

May 22, 2019May 22, 2019 Tara A. Dudley #WalkerCentennial, Activism, architecture, Black women, Madam CJ Walker

*This post is part of our online forum on Madam C.J. Walker for the centennial anniversary of her death.  Villa

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Look Good, Do Good: Madam C.J. Walker and Rihanna’s Beauty Politics

May 21, 2019May 21, 2019 Tiffany M. Gill #WalkerCentennial, Activism, Beauty Politics, black feminism, black politics, black protest, Black women, capitalism, Madam CJ Walker, race

*This post is part of our online forum on Madam C.J. Walker for the centennial anniversary of her death.  As

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Digital Du Bois

May 13, 2019April 30, 2019 Lavelle Porter Activism, art, black intellectual history, black internationalism, black politics, Paris, race, W.E.B. Du Bois

The publication of W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America gives new meaning to Du Bois’s famous sentence from

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Beyond Romantic Advertisements: Ancestry.com, Genealogy, and White Supremacy

May 10, 2019May 7, 2019 Adam H. Domby Historical Memory, primary source, racism, slavery

Ancestry.com has recently come under a lot of well-deserved criticism for whitewashing slavery with a new advertisement that portrays an

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