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The Early Activism of Angela Davis

February 7, 2024February 7, 2024 Joshua L. Crutchfield Activism, Black women, carceral state, police brutality

On October 13, 1970, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Angela Davis in New York facing indictments for kidnapping,

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Dorothy Porter, Archives, and the Preservation of Black Studies

February 5, 2024February 2, 2024 Derrion Arrington African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Black women

The explosive growth of Black studies programs and departments after 1968 triggered a wave of bibliographic scholarship. Colleges, universities, and

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Rosa Parks, Radicalism, and Remembrance

February 1, 2024January 27, 2024 Ashley Farmer Activism, black feminism, Black radicalism, civil rights, Rosa Parks

This article was originally published on February 17, 2015 It’s Black History Month, which means that mainstream society pulls out

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On Transnational Black Feminism

January 31, 2024January 29, 2024 Keisha N. Blain black feminism, black nationalism, garvey, UNIA

Today’s post was originally published on April 14, 2017. Black women and other women of color have been historically marginalized

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Convict Leasing in the Family

January 17, 2024January 16, 2024 Menika Dirkson carceral state, mass incarceration, racism, South

Around 1920, twenty-four-year-old E. Hooper left her rural hometown of Chester, South Carolina for the big city where she could

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