Search Results for: black power

D.W. Griffith’s Interracial Same-Sex Kiss

April 23, 2015April 23, 2015 Lauren Kientz Anderson

Cross-posted from OutHistory.org If there’s one thing I’ve learned studying history it is that the world is always more complicated

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The Whole World Is Watching

April 20, 2015April 20, 2015 Emily Owens

This post was imagined in collaboration with Camille Owens, who tweets @camillesowens. When Walter Scott was murdered by a cop in

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Fighting for Freedom: Free Women of African Descent in New Orleans and Beyond

April 12, 2015April 12, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson black protest, black rebellion, Civil War, freedom, reconstruction, slavery

Delivered at the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival on Saturday, March 28, 2015 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the panel

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Afro-Asian Lens on the Past

March 30, 2015March 15, 2016 Guest Poster Afro-Asia, Japan

***This is the third installment of a short series on Afro-Asia in which I examine the cultural and political exchanges

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Frederick Douglass’s Narrative and Teaching Intellectual History

March 26, 2015March 26, 2015 Chris Cameron

Frederick Douglass is widely recognized as one of, if not the, foremost black intellectuals of the 19th century. His wide-ranging

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