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The Radical Tradition of Student Protest

January 15, 2019January 29, 2019 Mike Jirik black radical tradition, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, student activism

On the night of August 20, 2018, student protesters at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill toppled a

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‘The Struggle is Eternal’: An Interview with Joseph R. Fitzgerald

January 14, 2019January 29, 2019 Ashley Farmer Activism, biography, Black Power, black protest, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow

In today’s post, Ashley Farmer, Assistant Professor in the Departments of History and African Diaspora Studies at the University of

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Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song

January 10, 2019January 29, 2019 Matthew Teutsch film, literature, slave trade, slavery

Looking upon the Wakandan sunset at the end of Ryan Coogler’s film Black Panther (2018), T’Challa holds his cousin N’Jadaka

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Readings on Transnational African American History

January 8, 2019January 29, 2019 Nico Slate and Clayton Vaughn-Roberson Activism, black internationalism, Politics

African American History has always transcended borders of many kinds, yet historians have not always recognized the transnational and global

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Recognizing Black Elderhood

January 4, 2019January 29, 2019 Celeste Henery African Diaspora, black internationalism, Brazil, music, race

In Pedagogies of Crossing, writer M. Jacqui Alexander asks us to observe the sustenance that lies sometimes in plain sight.

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