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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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The Meaning of Black Inexpression

October 10, 2023October 8, 2023 Rhya Moffitt Black Studies, book review, Deadpan, Performance

Tina Post’s first monograph, Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression, charts the territory of deadpan as a Black aesthetic practice. Deadpan, a

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Black Women’s Activism through History and Poetry

October 2, 2023September 7, 2023 Cathleen D. Cahill Black women, Carrie Williams Clifford, Club women, freedom, poetry

“Somehow, we’ve weathered and witnessed a nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished.” -Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb  Those

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Philadelphia’s Fight Against Gun Violence, Poverty, and Crime

August 31, 2023August 11, 2023 Menika Dirkson Philadelphia, violence

In 1969, the New York Times named Philadelphia the “gang capital” of America when the city had the highest rates

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A #HipHop50 Syllabus

August 25, 2023August 27, 2023 Austin McCoy #HipHop50, #HipHopSeries, hip hop

This post is part of our forum on “Hip Hop at 50.”  This syllabus provides resources to understand Hip-Hop Culture’s

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