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Black Women’s Contributions to Hip-Hop Beyond the Mic

May 14, 2021June 5, 2021 Shaun Armstead Gender, hip hop, masculinity, music

When Wu-Tang Clan’s Ol’ Dirty Bastard (ODB) adorned his 1995 debut album, Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version,

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On the Life and Legacy of Black Journalist Louis Lomax

May 10, 2021June 5, 2021 Joshua Clark Davis Black Power, Civil Rights Movement, journalism, Nation of Islam

We still have far too few histories of Black journalists. Even as biographers have written on Alex Haley, Ethel Payne,

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Contemplating Black Ecologies

May 4, 2021June 5, 2021 Celeste Henery Black Ecologies, black feminism

Earlier this year, political scientist and Black feminist Julia Jordan-Zachery asked the question, “What do Black women think about the

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The MOVE Bombing and the Callous Handling of Black Remains

April 26, 2021April 26, 2021 Jessica Parr medical experimentation, medical racism, police brutality, police violence

The 1985 MOVE bombing by the Philadelphia Police shocked and devastated a city, leaving destruction that killed 11 people, including

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Black Lesbian Thought: An Interview with Briona Simone Jones

April 19, 2021April 19, 2021 Emerald Rutledge African Diaspora, black feminism, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, Black women, Gender, Historical Memory, LGBT, literature, race, Resistance, sexuality

In today’s post, Emerald Rutledge, an associate editor of Black Perspectives, interviews Briona Simone Jones on her new edited collection, Mouths of

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