Search Results for: black studies

The Countercurriculum of Black Education

September 21, 2021September 19, 2021 Gloria Ashaolu black intellectual history, education

The discourse on anti-racist curriculum and praxis within educational spaces—both formal and informal—saw massive growth in the summer of 2020.

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Dr. Carlos E. Russell and the Origins of Black Solidarity Day

September 14, 2021September 13, 2021 Kaysha Corinealdi black internationalism, black protest, Pan-Africanism

  A young Black woman demonstrator at a rally at the Capitol protests voting rights limitations contained in bills written

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Policing Black Freedom

August 5, 2021August 5, 2021 Philip V. McHarris #contestedcitizenship, Activism, police violence, Resistance, slavery, W.E.B. Du Bois, white supremacy

*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study

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Black Women and American Freedom in Revolutionary America

July 13, 2021July 13, 2021 Karen Cook Bell black intellectual history, Black women, Resistance

What is the price of freedom? Is it worth the cost if failure means a return to slavery or death?

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Black Resistance, Historical Memory, and Monuments

July 6, 2021July 4, 2021 Adam Domby Activism, black protest

While commentators often point to 2015 (after the Mother Emmanuel shooting) or 2017 (after the Charlottesville terrorist attack) as the

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