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Black Remembrance and Racial Violence in New Orleans

December 21, 2021December 20, 2021 Sowande’ M. Mustakeem Jim Crow, Racial Violence

In 1831, Nat Turner—who led a band of bondpeople into insurrection in Southampton, Virginia –was executed, quelling what a great

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Black Queer Lives: A Conversation with Moya Bailey and Laura Lovett

November 23, 2021November 22, 2021 Erik Wallenberg black feminism, Gender, sexuality

Conversations in BlackFreedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated by Jeanne

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Mapping Black Antiquity

November 11, 2021November 11, 2021 Sarah Derbew africa, Antiquity, classics, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greek, Rome

Consider the vagaries surrounding the label “antiquity”: whose antiquity do you imagine to be the norm? Greece? Rome? Africa? For

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Black Networks, Visualization, and Mapping Tools

November 8, 2021November 7, 2021 Maiah Akkerman Letsch #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackAtlantics, Activism, African Diaspora, black internationalism, Gender

*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” The use of software and visualizations has never been so prominent in

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Expanding the Digital Black Atlantic

November 4, 2021November 4, 2021 Roopika Risam #BlackAtlantics, African Diaspora, Black Atlantic, Black Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” The essays published in the Digital Black Atlantics forum this

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