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“We Have Not Yet Forgiven Haiti For Being Black”

December 7, 2020January 11, 2021 Leslie M. Alexander #TheBlackRepublic, Haiti, Historical Memory, imperialism

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. On January 2, 1893, eighty-nine

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Black Brazilian Researchers and Activists Respond to Covid-19

December 2, 2020December 2, 2020 Kia Lilly Caldwell African Diaspora, Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, COVID-19, health, race, racism

By late May 2020, Brazil was the country with the second-highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the world. 

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Online Roundtable: Brandon R. Byrd’s ‘The Black Republic’

November 30, 2020November 29, 2020 AAIHS Editors #TheBlackRepublic

December 7-11, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a week-long online roundtable on

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Black Queer Writers and the Transformative Possibilities of Queer Sensuality

October 27, 2020November 9, 2020 J. T. Roane LGBT

Editor’s note: In honor of LGBTQ History Month, this week we’re revisiting pieces published on Black queer history, thought, and/or

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Black Queer Women and Femmes Fight for Housing Rights in Brooklyn

October 12, 2020October 19, 2020 Emily Batiste #Autoethnographies, Activism, Black Queers, class, COVID-19, race, racism, student activism

Editor’s note: This essay is part of our two-week blog series, featuring eight autoethnographies from students at Brooklyn College. Read

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