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Black Administrative Politics and the Question of the US State

November 21, 2023December 1, 2023 Frances O'Shaughnessy Politics, race, reconstruction, Resistance

In his book Administering Freedom, labor organizer and historian Dale Kretz asks how formerly enslaved Black people made freedom meaningful through

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Black Women Preachers and Womanist Thought

November 20, 2023October 29, 2023 Rev. Carla Jones Brown #WomanistTheology, Black Joy, liberation theology, Womanism, Womanist Theology

This post is part of our forum on “Womanist Theology.“ Many Black women who have experienced a call to preach

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Womanist Theology and A Black Woman’s Intellectual Movement

November 17, 2023November 7, 2023 A’Dorian Murray-Thomas black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, Resistance

This post is part of our forum on “Womanist Theology.“ My grandmother stood neither silent nor conspicuous in her daily

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Remembering Reverend Annie Rebecca Woodbey

November 8, 2023October 31, 2023 Charles Holm Black women, Gender, religion

The leading Black member of the Socialist Party of America (SPA) in the first decade of the twentieth century, Rev.

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Black Los Angeles Contributes to the Freedom Rides

November 6, 2023November 1, 2023 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. Activism, Civil Rights Movement, racism, Resistance

In the summer of 1961, Black people from Los Angeles and their allies volunteered to travel south and take part

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