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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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Sounds of Freedom: The Music of Black Liberation

April 13, 2021April 11, 2021 AAIHS Editors Black Power, music

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black

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The Art of Black Letter-Writing: A Conversation with Daphne Muse

March 26, 2021April 18, 2021 Joshua Clark Davis Activism, Civil Rights Movement, education, literature, South, teaching

More people should know Daphne Muse. Born and raised in Washington, DC, Muse grew up with a curiosity for the

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Conference 2021 – Virtual Booth, The Black Scholar

Founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1969 by Robert Chrisman and Nathan Hare, THE BLACK SCHOLAR (TBS) is the first

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