The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics
In Percival Everett’s satirical novel Erasure (2001), a struggling author in need of money to pay for his elderly mother’s
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‘BlacKkKlansman’ and William Shockley’s Eugenic Agenda
Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman‘ is a gladiatorial depiction of racism as a past returned into the present. In one of many
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Documentaries for Teaching African American History since 1865
Let’s face it: some students do almost no reading in our classes. But even if they seem to rarely crack
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‘Stoolpigeons’ and the Treacherous Terrain of Freedom Fighting
On May 15, 2018, Newsweek published a story entitled, “CIA Reveals Name of Former Spy in JFK Files—And He’s Still
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The NFL and a History of Black Protest
In 1944, Black activist and sportswriter Halley Harding, argued that “most persons, corporations or business almost always forget the people or incidents
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