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“Left Exposed to View!”: Black Women and Sexualized Violence

May 11, 2018May 15, 2018 Trimiko Melancon lynching, police brutality, police violence, Racial Violence, Resistance, sexual violence

In May 1962, Malcolm X delivered a commanding speech with his now infamous lines regarding the positionality of Black women:

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Langston’s Salvation: A New Book on the Religious Thought of Langston Hughes

May 7, 2018May 13, 2018 J. T. Roane Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, poetry, religion

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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James Baldwin and the 1980s: A New Book on the Iconic Writer’s Last Decade

May 2, 2018May 5, 2018 Phillip Luke Sinitiere black intellectual history, Gender

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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May We Forever Stand: A New Book on the Black National Anthem

April 28, 2018April 30, 2018 J. T. Roane archives, black politics, culture, education, Jim Crow, music, Resistance, South

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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The Fearless Nature of Remaking Black Power

April 24, 2018April 28, 2018 Mary Phillips #RemakingBlackPower, black feminism, Black Power, Black radicalism, Communism, Pan-Africanism, Third World Women’s Alliance

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Ashley Farmer’s Remaking Black Power Ashley Farmer’s comprehensive text, Remaking Black Power: How

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