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A Faithful Heretic: Joseph Lowery and the Politics of the Mass Movement

April 28, 2020April 26, 2020 Corey D. B. Walker Activism, Black church, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, democracy, religion

A strange land requires a familiar song. That’s why members of the community of faith sing the Lord’s song in

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“If bitterness were a whetstone”: On Grief, History, and COVID-19

April 23, 2020May 16, 2020 Elise A. Mitchell capitalism, health, mourning, race

“Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.” -Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals The COVID-19 numbers are

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Runaway Genres and the Global Legacy of Slavery

April 1, 2020March 29, 2020 Iana Robitaille literature, slavery

In her sweeping monograph Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery, Yogita Goyal takes up the legacy of the American

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On Authenticity

March 25, 2020March 22, 2020 Marquis Bey #OnSuite, Black Freethought, Black political thought, black politics, Black Queer Identity, LGBT, race

*This post is part of contributor Marquis Bey’s On Suite series. The discourse surrounding authenticity is nothing new, to be sure. It

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Tornado Groan: On Black (Blues) Ecologies

March 16, 2020March 16, 2020 J. T. Roane #BlackEcologies, black intellectual history, Black women, music

At noon on September 29, 1927, the clouds over St. Louis began to take on an ominous darkness. In the

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