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On Ambivalence, Revision, and the Remarkable Life of Lorraine Hansberry

September 8, 2022September 8, 2022 Isaiah Matthew Wooden #RadicalVision, art, Black political thought, Lorraine Hansberry, Playwright

This post is part of our online roundtable on Soyica Diggs Colbert’s Radical Vision Among the many things that captured my

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Race, Welfare Reform, and the Push for Family Values

August 31, 2022August 22, 2022 Trumaine Mitchell Abortion, Black women, Congress, reproductive justice, Welfare

With the stroke of a pen, all the gains of the abortion rights movement in the United States were overturned

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Black Women Resisting Racial Violence: A CBFS Interview

August 29, 2022August 23, 2022 Lucien Baskin black feminism, Black women, Racial Violence

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

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Brandon James Render

Brandon James Render is an assistant professor of history at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. His current book

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Black Historians, Race, and the Historical Profession

August 23, 2022August 21, 2022 Hettie Williams black intellectual history, education, teaching, W.E.B. Du Bois

“History must restore what slavery took away, for it is the social damage of slavery that the present generations must

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