The Historical Significance of Black Queer Films
Editor’s note: In honor of LGBTQ History Month, this week we’re revisiting pieces published on Black queer history, thought, and/or
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Kwame Nkrumah and Decolonial Imagination
Historian Jeffrey Ahlman talks with Dan Magaziner about Nkrumahism’s shifting forms, and its influence on contemporary decolonization movements. We have
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Remembering Wilma Rudolph, the “Queen of the Olympics”
Vilma! Vilma! Vilma! On September 8, 1960, Rome’s Stadio Olimpico rumbled with exuberant cheers as the crowd celebrated the woman
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How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights
Following the lead of Martin Luther King, Jr., Black civil rights activists dismantled Jim Crow legislation with colorblind logic. Yet,
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Claudia Jones and the Price of Anticommunism
Between 1949 to 1958 dozens of Communist Party (CPUSA) leaders were tried, some were convicted, and several served prison terms.
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