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The Black Press and a Manly Vision for Racial Advancement

January 29, 2019March 31, 2019 Say Burgin black press, book review, masculinity, race

Upon leaving the Nation of Islam (NOI) in March of 1964, Malcolm X spoke publicly about what he called Elijah

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‘Worldmaking After Empire’: A New Book about Self-Determination

January 28, 2019January 29, 2019 J. T. Roane black internationalism, Black political thought, black politics, Caribbean

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

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The Archiving of Black Women’s Sexual Lives

January 23, 2019January 29, 2019 Yelana Sims archives, Black women, digital media, sexuality, social media

On November 1, 2016, Ro Elori Cutno shared a picture to her Facebook profile that eventually went viral. The post

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The Radical Tradition of Student Protest

January 15, 2019January 29, 2019 Mike Jirik black radical tradition, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, student activism

On the night of August 20, 2018, student protesters at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill toppled a

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Readings on Transnational African American History

January 8, 2019January 29, 2019 Nico Slate and Clayton Vaughn-Roberson Activism, black internationalism, Politics

African American History has always transcended borders of many kinds, yet historians have not always recognized the transnational and global

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