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Hip Hop’s Gay Cousin: House-Structured Ballroom Culture 

August 23, 2023August 18, 2023 Victor Ultra Omni #HipHop50, #HipHopSeries, hip hop

This post is part of our forum on “Hip Hop at 50.”  In early 1989, Friends by R&B singer Jody Watley—featuring hip-hop

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“The Hip-Hop Generation”: An Interview with Bakari Kitwana

August 21, 2023August 15, 2023 Guy Emerson Mount #HipHop50, #HipHopSeries, hip hop

This post is part of our forum on “Hip Hop at 50.”  This is an interview with Guy Emerson Mount,

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Black Resistance and Slave Politics in Lowcountry Georgia

May 23, 2023May 19, 2023 Karen Cook Bell race, slavery

  Within Lowcountry Georgia, enslaved Africans expressed a determined political will to resist enslavement and maintain dignity. Their dislocation reinforced

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An Ode to Kente Epistemology: Theorizing Black Gay Life

May 18, 2023May 17, 2023 Kwame Edwin Otu #DiscoBallBetweenUs, black queer studies, Black Studies, Kente Clothe, methods

This post is part of our online roundtable on Jafari S. Allen’s There’s a Disco Ball Between Us. I enter Jafari

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Howard Thurman and the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples

April 14, 2023April 13, 2023 Victoria W. Wolcott #HowardThurman, Black Chuch, Christianity, Ebony, Mysticism, religion

This post is part of our forum on Howard Thurman and the Civil Rights Movement. In a 1978 Ebony profile famed

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