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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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Education and Liberation: A CBFS Conversation

May 8, 2024May 5, 2024 Lucien Baskin black internationalism, Civil Rights Movement, education, race

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black

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Chris Hani, National Liberation, and Apartheid’s Murderous Legacies

May 6, 2024April 29, 2024 Navid Farnia #AntiAparthied, #Roundtable, #SouthAfricanApartheid

This post is part of our forum on “The End of South African Apartheid Anniversary.”  On April 10, 1993, the

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