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Liberalism, Emancipation, and the Atlantic World

June 27, 2019June 26, 2019 Adriana Chira Activism, African Diaspora, black politics, capitalism, Caribbean, Haiti, nation, race, slavery

George Hackett’s trajectory simmered with the tensions that defined the Age of Emancipations. Hackett was born at the turn of

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We Live for the We: A New Book on the Political Power of Black Motherhood

April 9, 2019August 12, 2022 J. T. Roane Activism, black feminism, black protest, Black women, Gender, motherhood, Racial Violence

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Therese Patricia Okoumou: Black Women’s Bodies and Public Protest

March 18, 2019March 31, 2019 Celeste Henery Activism, black protest, carceral state, police violence, Racial Violence

Tomorrow, March 19, Therese Patricia Okoumou will be sentenced for her protest climb of the Statue of Liberty this past

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Rewriting Shirley Graham Du Bois

March 14, 2019August 12, 2022 Gerald Horne #ShirleyGrahamDuBois, Activism, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black women

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Shirley Graham Du Bois to recognize the anniversary of her passing in March 1977. The

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Why Black Women Can’t Breathe

February 21, 2019March 31, 2019 Celeste Henery Black women, health, Racial Violence, racism

Eric Garner’s gasp “I can’t breathe” in the chokehold of a New York City Police Department officer transformed into a

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