Global Guyana: An Interview with Oneka LaBennett
In today’s post, Kiana M. Knight, managing editor of Black Perspectives and a PhD candidate in Africana Studies at Brown
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Cars for Freedom: SNCC and the Sojourner Motor Fleet
On a late summer night in 1964, a small plane landed on a desolate airstrip outside Greenwood, Mississippi, carrying two
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The Expansion of Soul Foods
It was Amiri Baraka who said a “Harvard Negro” wouldn’t know how to get down, and Ebony’s Freda DeKnight who said we
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Black Women, Public Housing, and Resistance
For as long as public housing has been described as a “failure,” lower-income Black women have been the face of
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A Critique of Black Capitalism in an American Horror Film
The film, Candyman (1992), is a Blaxploitation film, a reactional Black revenge story that seeks to challenge white racism, privilege,
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