Black Germans and New Forms of Resistance
In her book In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, scholar Christina Sharpe described her concept of “wake work” as “a
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Black Resistance from Augusta to BLM
When our work began in December 2018, we sought to confront misinformation and erasure surrounding the “riot” of May 11-12,
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The Black History Behind the Country’s Oldest Women’s Center
This spring, the Cambridge Women’s Center, the US’s oldest women’s center, celebrated its 50th anniversary. Public commemorations included press attention
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The Revolt That Almost Overthrew Slavery
In 1763, in a remote corner of the Atlantic world, enslaved people came closer than ever before to overthrowing slavery
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Black Lesbian Thought: An Interview with Briona Simone Jones
In today’s post, Emerald Rutledge, an associate editor of Black Perspectives, interviews Briona Simone Jones on her new edited collection, Mouths of
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