Black Fists, Black Pride, and the 1968 Summer Olympics
Black fists. Black men. Black pride. That’s how we will always remember bronze medalist John Carlos and gold medalist Tommie
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German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture
Black German Studies has focused on women’s writing over the past thirty years. Priscilla Layne’s White Rebels in Black is
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The Complex Life of Writer Chester B. Himes
The prologue to Lawrence P. Jackson’s biography of Chester Himes begins with the twenty-five-year-old Himes sitting at a typewriter in
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Spike Lee, Nike, and Corporate Activism
In early September, Nike unveiled a new advertising campaign to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of its “Just Do It” motto,
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Documentaries for Teaching African American History since 1865
Let’s face it: some students do almost no reading in our classes. But even if they seem to rarely crack
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