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Black Intellectuals and White Audiences

July 27, 2016July 26, 2016 Guest Poster blackness, Kenneth Clark, Ta-Nehisi Coates

This guest post was originally published on Public Books and is reprinted here with permission. The author, Matthew Clair, is

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Paul Robeson, Black Dockworkers, and Labor-Left Pan-Africanism

July 25, 2016May 7, 2017 Guest Poster Pan-Africanism

This is a guest post by Peter Cole, a historian of the twentieth-century United States, South Africa and comparative history.

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Head Start and Mississippi’s Black Freedom Struggle: An Interview with Crystal R. Sanders

July 18, 2016July 16, 2016 Keisha N. Blain Mississippi

This month, I interviewed Crystal R. Sanders about her new book, A Chance for Change: Head Start and Mississippi’s Black

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“Most needed blessings”: The “all lives matter” debate in 1837

July 17, 2016July 13, 2016 Patrick Rael black lives matter, Henry Highland Garnet

Think the current controversy over “black lives matter” is new?  African American activists wrestled with the question almost 200 years

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Top Five in Bad Times (+ Bonus Track)

July 12, 2016July 12, 2016 Jessica Marie Johnson #BlackLivesMatter, digital media

This has been an especially difficult few weeks for those with any investment in social justice, black families and black

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