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The Life and Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks

November 20, 2017November 24, 2017 Grace D. Gipson black intellectual history, Black women

With this past June marking the 100th anniversary of Gwendolyn Brooks’s birth, it is important that we reflect on the life and

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The Weeping Time: A New Book on the Largest Slave Auction

November 20, 2017November 22, 2017 Julie Hawks Butler Plantation, slave auctions

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

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Chocolate City: A New Book on Race and Democracy in Washington, D.C.

November 18, 2017November 20, 2017 Julie Hawks Washington DC

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 Enuf*”: A New Animated Documentary on Black Queer Identity

November 17, 2017November 18, 2017 Michael T. Barry Jr. Black women, race, sexuality

This post is part of my blog series that announces the release of new films in African American History and African Diaspora Studies.

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African American Freedom and the Illusive “Forty Acres and a Mule”

November 16, 2017November 17, 2017 Karen Cook Bell economic justice, landownership, race, racism, reconstruction, Resistance, South

On August 18, 2016, the United Nations Working Group on Experts of People of African Descent determined that the history

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