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“His Infinite Curiosity”: Remembering Jeffrey B. Ferguson

June 26, 2018July 1, 2018 Werner Sollors #JeffreyFerguson, literature

This post is part of a week-long forum, organized by Mary Hicks, honoring Professor Jeffrey Brown Ferguson who passed away on March

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“The Right to Laugh”: Remembering Jeffrey B. Ferguson

June 25, 2018July 1, 2018 David Blight #JeffreyFerguson, Harlem Renaissance, literature

This post is part of a week-long forum, organized by Mary Hicks, honoring Professor Jeffrey Brown Ferguson who passed away on

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Cuban Revolution in America: A New Book on Cuba and the U.S. Left

June 8, 2018June 12, 2018 J. T. Roane black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Cuba, Racial Capitalism

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

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Expanding the Story of the Nation of Islam

May 21, 2018May 26, 2018 Gerald Horne #PromiseofPatriarchy, Black women, Nation of Islam, religion

This post is part of our online roundtable on Ula Taylor’s The Promise of Patriarchy  Today the Nation of Islam

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Solidarity and Excellence: W.E.B. Du Bois and William Leo Hansberry

May 19, 2018May 22, 2018 Christopher Tinson African Diaspora, black intellectual history, race, teaching, W.E.B. Du Bois

In W. E. B. Du Bois’s The World and Africa, first published in 1946, he writes: “I have read Eduard

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