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The Rich Legacy of African American Political and Intellectual History

March 19, 2019March 31, 2019 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, black internationalism, black lives matter, Black political thought, Black women, book review

In 1962, the magazine Negro Digest published a blistering critique of African American intellectuals by the sociologist E. Franklin Frazier. Titled, “The

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Rewriting Shirley Graham Du Bois

March 14, 2019August 12, 2022 Gerald Horne #ShirleyGrahamDuBois, Activism, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black women

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Shirley Graham Du Bois to recognize the anniversary of her passing in March 1977. The

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Shirley Graham Du Bois’s Labor of Love

March 12, 2019August 12, 2022 Britt Rusert #ShirleyGrahamDuBois, Activism, black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Shirley Graham Du Bois to recognize the anniversary of her passing in March 1977. The

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Black Fans, Protest, and Power

March 8, 2019August 12, 2022 Louis Moore black protest, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, race, racism

Playing the role of the heel, white wrestler Rod Rivera looked up at the segregated balcony in New Orleans’s Municipal

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Look at Me: A New Book About Education and the Black Queer Body

March 7, 2019March 9, 2019 J. T. Roane education, embodiment, LGBT, sexuality

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

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