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Celebrating 50 Years of Essence as a Black Women’s Archive

July 1, 2020July 1, 2020 Jacinta R. Saffold Black women, Gender, literature

Essence Magazine occupies a distinct position within the continuum of Black culture as an aspirational lifestyle magazine, grounded by a

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Power to the People: Attica and Radical Reconstruction

June 5, 2020June 5, 2020 Russell Rickford carceral state, criminal justice system, mass incarceration, Resistance

This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books, 2016). Today

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Flying Lotus and Registers of Black Life and Death

May 11, 2020May 10, 2020 Tiffany Barber and Isabel Jean-Louis #NewBlackSurrealisms, Black film, film, hip hop, Los Angeles, music

*This post is part of our New Black Surrealisms series organized by Tiffany E. Barber and Jerome Dent. The music video

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#AAIHS2020 Conference: The Black Radical Tradition

February 17, 2020February 16, 2020 Chris Cameron #AAIHS2020, black radical tradition

Next month, the African American Intellectual History Society will host its fifth annual conference at the University of Texas at

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Holloway House and the Black Literary Underground

December 5, 2019November 30, 2019 Matthew Teutsch book review, culture, literature, popular culture, publishing, race

How do authors such as Robert Beck (Iceberg Slim) and Donald Goines go from catering to white audiences with “black

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