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This Vast Southern Empire: A New Book on Slaveholders and U.S. Foreign Policy

September 12, 2016January 1, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi Deep South, empire, slavery

This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new

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Militant Visions: A New Book on Black Soldiers, Internationalism, and American Cinema

September 11, 2016September 10, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi black soldiers

This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am editing, which announces the publication of selected

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Rebuilding the Robesonian Labor Movement

September 10, 2016September 10, 2016 Russell Rickford black lives matter, poverty

This post is an amended version of a speech delivered at the Tompkins County Workers Center’s Labor Day Picnic at

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The Difficulty of Uncovering Obscure Lives and Hidden Histories

September 9, 2016December 30, 2016 Brian Purnell archives, Black women, Harlem, New York, research

Today is the fifth day of our roundtable on LaShawn Harris’s new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black

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Beyond Today’s Vote: Constructions of Black Identity Then and Now

September 9, 2016September 8, 2016 Chernoh Sesay Jr. Phillis Wheatley

“The political and cultural identities of black people have never been reducible to a discrete and unified list of interests

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