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Black Women Have Shaped Politics in Boston for Centuries

March 4, 2021March 3, 2021 Kabria Baumgartner

Kim Janey will probably vacate her position as president of the Boston City Council to become the city’s acting mayor.

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Martin Luther King Jr.’s Challenge to his Liberal Allies

February 22, 2021February 21, 2021 Jeanne Theoharis

“We do not need allies more devoted to order than to justice,” Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in the spring

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Audre Lorde And I Were Once Enemies

February 16, 2021February 15, 2021 Kenyon Farrow #AudreLorde, Activism, black feminism, Gender, white supremacy

Audre Lorde and I were once mortal enemies. At least that’s the way it seemed. In late 2004, I wrote

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Biographies of Women and Emancipation in the Americas

February 11, 2021February 11, 2021 Vanessa M. Holden Activism, African Diaspora, Black women, Gender, Resistance

Last fall, many people waited anxiously for the results of the U. S. elections. From Tuesday, November 3rd through Saturday,

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A Family History of British Empire

February 5, 2021January 30, 2021 Mary Hicks African Diaspora, black feminism, Black women, Caribbean

“Where are you from?”—The deceptively simple question looms over the sprawling narrative of Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands,

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