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Dorothy Porter, Archives, and the Preservation of Black Studies

February 5, 2024February 2, 2024 Derrion Arrington African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Black women

The explosive growth of Black studies programs and departments after 1968 triggered a wave of bibliographic scholarship. Colleges, universities, and

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Rosa Parks, Radicalism, and Remembrance

February 1, 2024January 27, 2024 Ashley Farmer Activism, black feminism, Black radicalism, civil rights, Rosa Parks

This article was originally published on February 17, 2015 It’s Black History Month, which means that mainstream society pulls out

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On Transnational Black Feminism

January 31, 2024January 29, 2024 Keisha N. Blain black feminism, black nationalism, garvey, UNIA

Today’s post was originally published on April 14, 2017. Black women and other women of color have been historically marginalized

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“Before Brown”: A CBFS Interview

January 19, 2024January 18, 2024 Lucien Baskin black queer studies, CBFS, interview, military, WWII

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

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Convict Leasing in the Family

January 17, 2024January 16, 2024 Menika Dirkson carceral state, mass incarceration, racism, South

Around 1920, twenty-four-year-old E. Hooper left her rural hometown of Chester, South Carolina for the big city where she could

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