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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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What is “Freedom” in the Black Freedom Struggle?

January 11, 2024January 5, 2024 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. Activism, black protest, black radical tradition

Freedom is at the center of the Black freedom struggle. The Strange Career of Jim Crow, The Strange Careers of the Jim

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The Controversy of the Without Sanctuary Museum Exhibit

December 4, 2023December 1, 2023 Menika Dirkson Jim Crow, lynching, museums

On May 22, 1917, the lynching of Ell Persons, a Black woodcutter, occurred in a carnival-type setting in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Joyce Ladner and SNCC

November 29, 2023November 13, 2023 Marlee Bunch Activism, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow

On the occasion of the recent sixtieth anniversary of the March on Washington, many of us celebrated and remembered those who

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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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