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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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John Potts and Radical Student Activism

November 1, 2023October 24, 2023 Candace Cunningham black intellectual history, education, HBCU history, Higher education, Resistance, teaching

Black educator Dr. John Foster Potts may be a largely unknown figure today, but in Jim Crow-era South Carolina he

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Why Black People Believe the End is Near

October 31, 2023October 24, 2023 Benjamin Baker black intellectual history, racism, religion

Recently Pew Research Center released the results of a study on “How Religion Intersects with Americans’ Views on the Environment.” In it,

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Manuel Zapata Olivella, Mestizaje and Black Politics in 1970s Colombia

October 11, 2023October 8, 2023 Laura Correa Ochoa #raceandlatinamerica, African Diaspora, black internationalism, Pan-Africanism

This post is part of our forum on “Race and Latin America” Pan-Africanism is not typically associated with Colombia or

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