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Introduction to the #WakandaSyllabus

June 19, 2016February 22, 2023 Guest Poster Afrofuturism

The following list was compiled by Dr. Walter Greason, who is the author of The American Economy, a collection of

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Why We Must Remember: Reflecting on the Charleston Massacre One Year Later

June 17, 2016June 16, 2016 Keisha N. Blain Charleston, Racial Violence, South Carolina, violence

On June 17, 2015, a white supremacist walked into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina,

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When Scholars Cry: Celebrating the Career of Thomas C. Holt

May 28, 2016June 4, 2016 Guy Emerson Mount black intellectual history, black politics, black protest

If you’ve never seen a historian cry, you’re probably hanging out with the wrong historians. The day you see multiple

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Fire in Babylon and The Racial Politics of West Indian Cricket

May 27, 2016May 27, 2016 Paul Hébert black internationalism, C.L.R. James, Caribbean

“What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?” asked C.L.R. James in Beyond a Boundary, his 1962 study

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We Are An African People and the Dynamism of Black Power Studies

April 26, 2016April 26, 2016 Guest Poster #AAIHSRoundtable, #WeAreAnAfricanPeople, black intellectual history, black nationalism, Black Power Studies

This is the second day of our roundtable on Russell Rickford’s book, We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black

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