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Black Women’s Holy Ghost Work: Then and Now

July 28, 2017August 2, 2017 Judith Casselberry Harlem, religion

“East Harlem leaves had the red tips of early autumn when Amaryllia (Lillie) Jones ventured down E. 131st Street in

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White Fragility, Anti-Racist Pedagogy, and the Weight of History

July 27, 2017July 31, 2017 Guest Poster academia, ethnic studies, pedagogy, race, racism, racist ideas, teaching

by Justin Gomer and Christopher Petrella On July 3, The Boston Globe published a controversial, if predictable, op-ed entitled “In

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Neo-McCarthyism and the Radical Professor

July 22, 2017July 27, 2017 Russell Rickford academia, Activism, digital media, education, Resistance

It is never easy to be a critical intellectual in a bourgeois democracy—a society that professes egalitarian values while aggressively

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Finding Toussaint L’Ouverture in Tennessee

July 20, 2017July 23, 2017 Brandon Byrd Black women, Haiti, slavery

In the summer of 1777, as musket balls flew about New York’s battlefields, José de Gálvez felt confident. The American

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Black Motherhood and the Limits of Empathy

July 19, 2017July 23, 2017 Sasha Turner art, motherhood, slavery

Although it has been months since the controversy over Dana Schutz’s painting, “Open Casket,” which depicted Emmett Till’s mutilated face

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