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“Swinging While I’m Singing”: Spike Lee, Public Enemy, and the Message in the Music

June 24, 2019June 22, 2019 Mark Anthony Neal Black film, black politics, film series, hip hop, music, police brutality, race, Resistance, women in film

“1989, a number, another summer, sound of the funky drummer” —Public Enemy, “Fight the Power” The scene may be the

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Everything is Necessary: A New Collection of Poetry

June 21, 2019June 10, 2019 J. T. Roane art, Caribbean, Jamaica, poetry

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Look Good, Do Good: Madam C.J. Walker and Rihanna’s Beauty Politics

May 21, 2019May 21, 2019 Tiffany M. Gill #WalkerCentennial, Activism, Beauty Politics, black feminism, black politics, black protest, Black women, capitalism, Madam CJ Walker, race

*This post is part of our online forum on Madam C.J. Walker for the centennial anniversary of her death.  As

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American Founders: A New Book on the African Diaspora and New World Freedom

April 19, 2019August 12, 2022 Skyler Gordon African Diaspora, black politics, black protest, civil rights, race, racism, Resistance, slavery

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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#AAIHS2019 Conference: Black Internationalism—Then and Now

March 9, 2019August 12, 2022 Annette Joseph-Gabriel #AAIHS2019

In a few short weeks, AAIHS will hold its fourth annual conference at the University of Michigan. The two-day event,

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