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Unearthing New Histories of Black Appalachia

August 12, 2020August 14, 2020 Jillean McCommons Historical Memory, South Carolina

“Depending on the ‘truth’ of the alternate versions, Liberia’s founding may be seen as a white kindness or as a

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The Relationship Between African Americans and Africa

August 11, 2020August 13, 2020 Christopher Ndubuizu African Diaspora, blackness, Historical Memory

Negro, African, Colored, Afro-American, African American, and Black are identifiers that reflect the variety of ways African Americans have identified

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Anne Moody’s Coming of Age in Mississippi: Seeing Anne’s Struggles as Our Own

July 10, 2020July 5, 2020 Adele Norris black protest, blackness, Civil Rights Movement, youth

It’s been over 50 years since Anne Moody published Coming of Age in Mississippi in 1968. The autobiography chronicles Anne’s life

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An Appeal –Bring the Maroon to the Foreground in Black Intellectual History

June 19, 2020June 17, 2020 Yannick Marshall black intellectual history, marronage, race, Racial Violence, racism, Resistance, violence, white supremacy

Within the larger narrative of slave resistance, maroons offered a unique experiment. They created and exposed to whites and blacks

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The Legacy of the 1968 Rebellion for Today’s Protests in ‘Chocolate City’

June 18, 2020June 17, 2020 Kimberly Probolus black rebellion, Resistance, Washington DC

In 1968, Washington Post journalists Harry Jaffe and Tom Sherwood named police brutality as one of the factors motivating protestors

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