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Agents of Change: Black Freethinkers Then and Now

August 17, 2020August 16, 2020 Lauren T. Rorie black intellectual history, religion

Religion, as part of the trifecta of “sex, politics, and religion” is the most under-examined aspect of contemporary Black feminist

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Unearthing New Histories of Black Appalachia

August 12, 2020August 14, 2020 Jillean McCommons Historical Memory, South Carolina

“Depending on the ‘truth’ of the alternate versions, Liberia’s founding may be seen as a white kindness or as a

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Syllabus: A History of Anti-Black Racism in Medicine

August 12, 2020August 13, 2020 Antoine S. Johnson, Elise A. Mitchell, Ayah Nuriddin health, medicine

The ongoing Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is revealing longstanding American health and healthcare disparities yet to be addressed. While some have

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The Everyday Black Life of Abolition

August 5, 2020August 12, 2020 Celeste Winston maroons, policing, Prison Abolition, social justice

The summer of 2020 has seen extraordinary uprisings against policing in the United States. An estimated 15 to 26 million

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We Need Histories of Radical Black Ecology Now

August 3, 2020August 4, 2020 Romy Opperman #BlackEcologies, Black Ecologies, capitalism

*This post is part of our new series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane. The events

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