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Black Women and Religion during the Civil Rights Movement: An Interview with AnneMarie Mingo

February 6, 2025February 5, 2025 Aaron Pride Black Religion, Black women, civil rights, Womanist Theology

In today’s post, Dr. Aaron Pride, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Lafayette College, interviews renowned scholar of religion Dr. AnneMarie

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Race, Gender, and Religion in New Jersey’s Civil Rights Movement

January 23, 2025January 19, 2025 Cherisse Jones-Branch #GeorgiaOfTheNorth, Black women, civil rights, education

This post is part of our online roundtable on Hettie V. Williams’s The Georgia of the North. Hettie V. Williams has

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Centering Northern Black Women in the Civil Rights Narrative

January 22, 2025January 19, 2025 Lacey Hunter #GeorgiaOfTheNorth, Black women, Civil Rights Movement

This post is part of our online roundtable on Hettie V. Williams’s The Georgia of the North. As the body of

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Black Women Comrades in the Struggle for Liberation

September 20, 2024September 19, 2024 Maria Martin #BlackWomensActivismInTheDiaspora, Activism

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women’s Activism in the African Diaspora.”  “Dear Comrade,” began a letter

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Examining Identity in Louisiana’s 19th-Century Black Literature

September 12, 2024September 12, 2024 Tanguy GIL France, literature, Louisiana

Slave narratives were a central genre of African American literature in antebellum America. Still, some authors wrote fiction works, the

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