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Documenting Racial Violence Through Photography

November 13, 2018December 10, 2018 Matthew Teutsch Activism, photography, Racial Violence

Earlier this year, John Ira Jennings and Damian Duffy’s graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Kindred (1979) won the 2018

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Aretha Franklin, Sexual Violence, and the “Culture of Dissemblance”

November 1, 2018November 5, 2018 Rachel Zellars Activism, Black women, Gender, Resistance, sexual violence

Many have proposed that Black American cultural expressions created in the New World — jazz, the blues, gospel, R&B, the

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Race Women Internationalists and Global Black Freedom Struggles

October 30, 2018November 3, 2018 Shelby M. Sinclair Activism, African Diaspora, black feminism, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black women, Caribbean, decolonization, Gender, race, racism

In her 1932 article entitled “The Awakening of Race Consciousness among Black Students,” Afro-Jamaican intellectual Una Marson advanced a theory

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Slavery and Memory in Charleston, South Carolina

October 11, 2018October 17, 2018 Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders Resistance, slavery, South

The familiar refrain after the Emmanuel AME massacre on June 17, 2015, was that Dylann Roof, the murderer, was not

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Envisioning Black Memphis at Midcentury

October 9, 2018October 18, 2018 Beverly Greene Bond Black women, racism, religion, Unseen Light

*This post is part of our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light By 1940, Memphis, Tennessee was – with

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