Black Design in Chicago: An Exhibit and Symposium
If Harlem was the capital of Black fine arts in the United States in the twentieth century, Chicago was the
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The Archiving of Black Women’s Sexual Lives
On November 1, 2016, Ro Elori Cutno shared a picture to her Facebook profile that eventually went viral. The post
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The Radical Hope of Octavia Butler
When I assigned Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower for my Introduction to Fiction classes this fall, I was fearful
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Black Athletes and the Civil Rights Movement
Elgin Baylor would not shut up and dribble. Baylor, who grew up in segregated Washington, D.C., had grown tired of
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Readings on Transnational African American History
African American History has always transcended borders of many kinds, yet historians have not always recognized the transnational and global
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