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Civil Rights Playwrights as Black Intellectuals

November 25, 2017November 28, 2017 Julie Burrell civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Harold Cruse, theater

In the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, contributors reaffirmed the significance of

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Civil Rights Organizations, the Black Press, and Ethnic Nationalist Movements in Africa

May 30, 2017June 2, 2017 Marius Kothor black nationalism, civil rights, colonialism, West Africa

As African societies began to break the shackles of colonial domination during the mid-twentieth century, African Americans looked to these

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A Civil Rights Protest Is Happening Right Now in Colombia

May 25, 2017May 30, 2017 Yesenia Barragan Colombia

As of May 10, thousands in the majority-Black department of Chocó in the northwestern corridor of the Colombian Pacific are

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Race and Civil Rights Dramas in Hollywood

March 24, 2017March 28, 2017 Justin Gomer civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, film

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of Stanley Kramer’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, starring the iconic Sidney Poitier. During the

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Civil Rights Activist, Poet, Bookseller: An Interview with Charlie Cobb

February 27, 2017March 1, 2017 Joshua Clark Davis Activism, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement

This is an edited excerpt of an interview I conducted with Charlie Cobb in October 2015. Perhaps best known as

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