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Shirley Graham Du Bois’s Biographical Writings

March 11, 2019August 12, 2022 Bettina Aptheker #ShirleyGrahamDuBois, African Diaspora, 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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Black Fans, Protest, and Power

March 8, 2019August 12, 2022 Louis Moore black protest, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, race, racism

Playing the role of the heel, white wrestler Rod Rivera looked up at the segregated balcony in New Orleans’s Municipal

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The Historical Significance of Black Queer Films

March 7, 2019March 9, 2019 Emerald Rutledge Black film, Black Queers, blackness, Essex Hemphill, hip hop, Marlon Riggs, sexuality

In the context of the reemergence of Black nationalist rhetoric and ideologies in hip-hop music in the late 1980s and

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Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement

March 5, 2019March 9, 2019 Edward Dunsworth Activism, black politics, Politics, Resistance, South

As the primary setting for slavery, sharecropping, and racialized Southern rural poverty, agriculture has–for good reason–been principally portrayed as a

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Online Forum: Shirley Graham Du Bois

March 4, 2019March 10, 2019 AAIHS Editors #ShirleyGrahamDuBois

March 11-15, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on Shirley Graham

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