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Dr. King and a Moral Plan for Justice

November 28, 2023November 14, 2023 M. Keith Claybrook Activism, Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow, Resistance

Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was a pastor, civil rights leader, Nobel Prize winner, author, son, husband, and father. It took

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Enshrining Black Countermodernism & New Deal Skepticism

November 27, 2023November 8, 2023 Dylan O’Hara black intellectual history, FWP, literature, New Deal, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston

J.J. Butts’ new work, Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project, provides a close reading of the ways

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Chick Webb, The King of Swing

November 22, 2023November 7, 2023 Alice Nicholas African Diaspora, Black History, Harlem Renaissance, music

It is important to acknowledge that Black people, wherever they are located in the world, are of African origin because,

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Black Administrative Politics and the Question of the US State

November 21, 2023December 1, 2023 Frances O'Shaughnessy Politics, race, reconstruction, Resistance

In his book Administering Freedom, labor organizer and historian Dale Kretz asks how formerly enslaved Black people made freedom meaningful through

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A Womanist Dancing Mind in Wilderness Archives

November 16, 2023October 29, 2023 Jaimie D. Crumley #WomanistTheology, archives, black feminism, Womanism, Womanist Theology

This post is part of our forum on “Womanist Theology.“ To enter the archive as a historian who studies the

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