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When It Ain’t Broke: Black Female Representation in Comics

January 9, 2017August 5, 2017 Alyssa Collins #comicsandrace

This guest post is part of our new blog series on Comics, Race, and Society, edited by Julian Chambliss and

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Totalitarian Century: A New Book on Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination

January 8, 2017January 11, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black intellectual history, black internationalism, black politics, W.E.B. Du Bois

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

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Capturing the Spirit of Black Pittsburgh: A Review of “Fences”

January 3, 2017January 5, 2017 Larry Glasco Black film, Jim Crow, poverty, sports

Just after Christmas, I went to see “Fences,” Denzel Washington’s film adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning play. I went with

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Prophets and Religious Radicals: An Interview with Albert Raboteau

January 2, 2017January 4, 2017 Chris Cameron Martin Luther King Jr.

This month I had the opportunity to interview Albert J. Raboteau about his new book, American Prophets: Seven Religious Radicals

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Ghosts of Slavery’s Christmas

December 22, 2016December 20, 2017 Brandon Byrd Christmas, slavery

James Thomas was well-acquainted with powerful white southerners, intimate even. He was born in 1827 to an enslaved woman and

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