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Women’s History Month: The Legacy of the Fight over the 15th Amendment

March 2, 2015March 2, 2015 Noelle Trent Fifteenth Amendment, Frederick Douglass

                     During the past week, Patricia Arquette’s comments during her Oscars acceptance speech have ignited debate across

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Questions You Might Have Opinions About: Self-critique, Language, The Nadir, and Historical Accuracy in a Film (*not Selma)

February 22, 2015February 22, 2015 Lauren Kientz Anderson

This post is a bit more informal than the carefully researched posts of my colleagues on this blog. I would

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Racial Uplift and the Big Screen: Modern Reflections on a Historical Concern

February 19, 2015February 20, 2015 Rhon Manigault-Bryant

“What do modern iterations of racial uplift look like in popular film?” I’ve been sitting with this question after a

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Rosa Parks, Radicalism, and Remembrance

February 17, 2015February 17, 2015 Ashley Farmer

Its Black History Month, which means that mainstream society pulls out the iconic images of African American freedom fighters including

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Dispatches from Shondalandia by a Slavery Historian (Vol. 2)

February 12, 2015February 12, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson black feminism, feminism, law, reconstruction, slavery

“I am not yours.” – Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope, Scandal 2 X 3 “You might be Command, Dad, but

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