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Hope, Faith, and Metaphor in African American History

September 25, 2023August 31, 2023 Nico Slate African American history, Barack Obama, Black History, History, Martin Luther King Jr.

In November 2022, the Chief Justice of India, D.Y. Chandrachud, cited Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. while encouraging his fellow

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Global Blackness: More than Strangers, More than Citizens

September 14, 2023September 7, 2023 April J. Mayes #TranslatingBlackness, Haiti, Immigration, Racial Capitalism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness. There she stood, in the middle of a dirt

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Translating Blackness and Transcending Hierarchies of Belonging

September 13, 2023September 7, 2023 Crystal M. Fleming #TranslatingBlackness, African Diaspora, black internationalism, Frederick Douglass

This post is part of our online roundtable on Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness. In the penultimate chapter of Translating Blackness:

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On The Sixtieth Anniversary of the March on Washington

August 28, 2023August 28, 2023 Robert Greene II civil rights

In recent years, memorialization of the Civil Rights era from the 1950s and 1960s has taken on a new urgency

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A #HipHop50 Syllabus

August 25, 2023August 27, 2023 Austin McCoy #HipHop50, #HipHopSeries, hip hop

This post is part of our forum on “Hip Hop at 50.”  This syllabus provides resources to understand Hip-Hop Culture’s

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