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‘Back to Black’: A New Book on Black Radicalism

September 18, 2018September 19, 2018 Keisha N. Blain black politics, black radical tradition, Black radicalism

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

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Black History, Sequential Art, and the Power of Representation

May 26, 2018June 2, 2018 John Craig #BlackPanther, art, Black Power, comics, Visual Culture

*This post is part of our blog series on The World of the Black Panther. This series, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter Greason,

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Death and Memory From Mississippi to Chicago

March 13, 2018April 6, 2018 Guy Emerson Mount Chicago, reparations, slavery, University of Chicago

My grandfather died on Christmas Eve. I never knew him, but his legend still hangs over me. Even though I’m named

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Benedita da Silva, Brazil’s First Black Woman Senator and Governor

March 1, 2018March 3, 2018 Jaimee A. Swift Afro-Brazilians, black politics, Black women, Brazil, intersectionality

Female politicians are underrepresented in their leadership and their participation, and their contributions and successes in national, local, and civil

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Cartoonist Jackie Ormes’ Commentary on Black Life

January 5, 2018January 8, 2018 Matthew Teutsch black politics, Black women, civil rights, lynching, Racial Violence, segregation

Writing in the Chicago Defender in 1948, Langston Hughes proclaimed, “If I were marooned on a desert island . . . I

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