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Nate Parker, Rape Culture, and Toxic Masculinity

August 20, 2016August 20, 2016 Deirdre Cooper Owens Nat Turner, Nate Parker, rape

Over the past seventy-two hours, the Internet has been abuzz over Nate Parker’s involvement in a seventeen-year-old rape case.  Journalists

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#SandraBland Soundtrack

August 19, 2016August 15, 2016 Phillip Luke Sinitiere Sandra Bland

My post last month used visual art as a way to mark the one-year anniversary of Sandra Bland’s death (see

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The Passing of Professor Leslie Brown

August 18, 2016August 20, 2016 Keisha N. Blain Leslie Brown

Leslie Brown died of leukemia in Boston on August 5 surrounded by loving friends and her long term partner Annie

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“Womanish is the Perfect Description for Me”: Remembering Leslie Brown

August 18, 2016August 18, 2016 Rhon Manigault-Bryant Leslie Brown

Womanist: 1. From womanish. (Opp. of “girlish,” i.e. frivolous, irresponsible, not serious.) A black feminist or feminist of color. From the black folk

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“Stalwart Presence for a Generation at Williams College”: Remembering Leslie Brown

August 17, 2016March 2, 2019 Don S. Polite, Jr. Leslie Brown

It should go without saying, but I miss Leslie Brown. What she did for an entire generation of scholars can

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