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African American Novelist Frank Yerby’s Writings on Race

January 31, 2018February 4, 2018 Matthew Teutsch Civil War, literature, poverty, reconstruction, South

African American novelist Frank Yerby grew up in Augusta, Georgia, where he attended Paine College. Later he attended Fisk University and taught briefly

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Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean: A New Book on Atlantic Slavery

January 27, 2018February 2, 2018 Keisha N. Blain African Diaspora, archives, Caribbean, freedom, slavery

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

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The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities

January 22, 2018January 30, 2018 Lavelle Porter documentary, education, film, student activism, W.E.B. Du Bois

One of the most painful and haunting images that I recall from Stanley Nelson’s documentary, Tell Them We Are Rising:

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A More Beautiful and Terrible History: A New Book on the Civil Rights Movement

January 22, 2018January 25, 2018 Ibram X. Kendi civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Historical Memory, Martin Luther King Jr.

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

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Black Women’s Histories and the Power of Truth-Telling

January 16, 2018January 20, 2018 Janell Hobson Activism, Black women

Not long after Oprah Winfrey, the iconic media mogul and pioneer for African American women in film, television, and journalism,

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