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A Meditation on Rape, Rape Culture, News, and History

March 20, 2016March 20, 2016 Guest Poster rape, violence

Today’s guest blog post is written by Starita Smith, a former daily newspaper reporter and editor. She worked for the Gary

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#AAIHS2016: New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition (Day Two)

March 11, 2016March 15, 2016 Guest Poster

Today is the second day of our conference, “New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition,” at the University of North

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The Bonds of History

February 25, 2016February 25, 2016 Christopher Bonner slavery

In recent years, Whitney Plantation has been transformed into a site for the memory of African enslavement in American and

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W. E. B. Du Bois and Black History Month

February 18, 2016February 18, 2016 Phillip Luke Sinitiere black intellectual history, black internationalism, black politics, W.E.B. Du Bois

The year was 1949. Eighty-one-year-old W. E. B Du Bois was one year removed from his second stint at the

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Thinking About Grenada Through Iran

February 15, 2016February 15, 2016 Greg Childs Caribbean, Grenada

It has been more than three decades now since the Grenada revolution of 1979-1983, more than three decades since names

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