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The Mysterious Thelma X and the Struggle of Black Domestic Workers

April 3, 2016April 3, 2016 Garrett Felber black nationalism, Black women, Nation of Islam

Several years ago, I was looking through the papers of sociologist C. Eric Lincoln at the Robert W. Woodruff Library

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Finding Agency in Unexpected Places

March 22, 2016March 20, 2016 Jared Hardesty black politics, freedom, primary source, slavery

Ezekiel Price was a notary public in Boston, Massachusetts whose career spanned from the 1750s until the 1780s. He dutifully

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Thoughts on Underground

March 18, 2016March 17, 2016 Noelle Trent

Warning this post contains spoilers I first heard about WGN America’s Underground back in October, shortly after I started working

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#AAIHS2016: New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition (Day One)

March 10, 2016March 15, 2016 Guest Poster

Today is the first day of our conference, “New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition,” at the University of North

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Antiracism and the Cuban Revolution: An Interview with Devyn Spence Benson

March 8, 2016March 7, 2016 Reena Goldthree Caribbean, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Malcolm X

This month, I interviewed historian Devyn Spence Benson about her forthcoming book, Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution (University of

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