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The Controversy of the Without Sanctuary Museum Exhibit

December 4, 2023December 1, 2023 Menika Dirkson Jim Crow, lynching, museums

On May 22, 1917, the lynching of Ell Persons, a Black woodcutter, occurred in a carnival-type setting in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Documenting Black Appalachia

November 30, 2023November 22, 2023 E. James West Black Appalachia, Coal, DOCUMERICA, Great Migration, West Virginia

Migration has been a constant theme throughout my Black Perspectives series on African Americans and DOCUMERICA, a landmark 1970s photodocumentary

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Womanist Imagination and Liberation from the Politics of Colorblind Positivism

November 15, 2023October 31, 2023 Joshua Ro Bible, Black Theology, Christianity, Theology, Womanist Theology

This post is part of our forum on “Womanist Theology.“ In a 2018 podcast debate with journalist Ezra Klein, popular

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Introduction to the Womanist Theology Forum

November 10, 2023November 9, 2023 Tejai Beulah Howard black intellectual history, Black Women's History, religion, Theology, Womanist Theology

This post is part of our forum on “Womanist Theology.“ When Alice Walker wrote the definition of a Womanist, in 1983,

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Uma História Ambiental Negra das Palmeiras

November 7, 2023November 7, 2023 Jayson Maurice Porter translated by Manoel Rendeiro Neto #BlackFamilyTree, Brazil, Columbia, Environmental History, Latin America

Leia a tradução em inglês deste ensaio aqui. [Uma breve leitura da palma da mão com Landscapes of Freedom por

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