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Storytelling and Racial Healing

September 18, 2017September 21, 2017 Celeste Henery black internationalism, Civil Rights Movement, Frederick Douglass, racism

I recently returned from a storytelling school in a small coastal town on the North Channel of Northern Ireland. I

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The Hip Hop Pedagogy and Innovative Prose of Rakim Allah

September 15, 2017September 18, 2017 Richard D. Benson II hip hop, music

It was the summer of 1986 in Chicago, and my eleven-year-old self was engaged in an intense debate with my

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The Jim Crow Paradox: A New Book on the Associated Negro Press

September 11, 2017September 14, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black intellectual history, Jim Crow, journalism

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

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Remembering Afro-German Intellectual May Ayim

September 6, 2017September 9, 2017 Tiffany Florvil African Diaspora, Black Europe, black feminism, Black German, black intellectual history, black women's internationalism, poetry

It has been almost twenty-one years since Black German activist, educator, writer, and public intellectual May Ayim died on August

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The Fallacy of 1619: Rethinking the History of Africans in Early America

September 4, 2017September 6, 2017 Michael Guasco colonial America, colonialism, slave trade, slavery

In 1619, “20. and odd Negroes” arrived off the coast of Virginia, where they were “bought for victualle” by labor-hungry

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