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Shifting Ground: Writing Working-Class Black Women’s History from Below

September 8, 2016September 3, 2016 Talitha LeFlouria Black women, Harlem, New York

Today is the fourth day of our roundtable on LaShawn Harris’s new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black

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Uncovering the Voices of Working-Class Black Women in Harlem

September 6, 2016December 30, 2016 Julie Gallagher archives, Black women, Harlem, New York, research

Today is the second day of our roundtable on LaShawn Harris’s new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black

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Forging Black Identities in Slavery and Freedom: An Interview with Alex Borucki

September 2, 2016August 31, 2016 Reena Goldthree slave trade

This month, I interviewed Alex Borucki about his new book, From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in the Río

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Black Intellectual History and STEM: A Conversation with Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

August 29, 2016August 27, 2016 Greg Childs

This month, I interviewed Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on the intersections of black intellectual history and STEM. Dr. Prescod-Weinstein is a

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Immigration Policy, the West Indies, and Canadian Black Activism in the 1960s

August 27, 2016August 25, 2016 Paul Hébert Canada, Immigration, Migration

Last month I wrote about a protest held by Toronto’s Black Lives Matter movement and the emergence of the Black

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