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Black Bookstores and the Black Power Movement: An Interview with Paul Coates

June 5, 2018June 16, 2018 Joshua Clark Davis Baltimore, black nationalism, Philadelphia

In this post, blogger Joshua Clark Davis interviews activist Paul Coates–the father of author Ta-Nehisi Coates–on his life and early

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The NFL’s Denial of Black Humanity

May 29, 2018June 5, 2018 Jermaine Scott black protest, Black radicalism, Colin Kaepernick, sports

In response to protests that rocked the national sports world, NFL owners have approved a new policy that requires players

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Chocolate Cities: A New Book on the Black Map of American Life

May 26, 2018October 13, 2018 J. T. Roane black protest, blackness, culture, gentrification, Migration, Resistance

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

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Writing on Women and the Nation of Islam: An Author’s Response

May 25, 2018June 5, 2018 Ula Y. Taylor #PromiseofPatriarchy, Black women, Islam, Nation of Islam

This post is part of our online roundtable on Ula Taylor’s The Promise of Patriarchy  I am so very humbled by

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The Promise of the Nation of Islam

May 24, 2018June 5, 2018 Robyn C. Spencer #PromiseofPatriarchy, archives, Black women, Nation of Islam, religion, self-determination

This post is part of our online roundtable on Ula Taylor’s The Promise of Patriarchy  Controversy over the Nation of Islam

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