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A Brief History of the “Black Friend”

July 30, 2018August 8, 2018 Tyler Parry Jim Crow, slavery, South

In June 2018, two news reports encapsulated a problem in American race relations: a white person says something racist, apologizes

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Black Public History in Chicago

July 30, 2018August 8, 2018 Betsy Schlabach Activism, archives, Black Arts Movement, black politics, Black Power, Chicago, civil rights, museums, Public History

As part of the research for his book Black Public History in Chicago: Civil Rights Activism From World War II

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Between Europe and the Black Atlantic

July 27, 2018August 8, 2018 Caroline Bressey art, Black Europe, Black Europe Series, Blacks in Britain

*This post is part of our new blog series on Black Europe. This series, edited by Kira Thurman and Anne-Marie Angelo, explores what it means to

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Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Barracoon’ and Africatown’s Sister Settlement

July 25, 2018July 31, 2018 Sharla M. Fett literature, slave trade, slavery, Zora Neale Hurston

More than ninety years after Zora Neale Hurston first met Cudjo Lewis, her manuscript Barracoon has finally been published. Hurston encountered

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Migrant Children and Family Separation in the United States

July 16, 2018July 20, 2018 Westenley Alcenat Haiti, Racial Violence, racism, slavery, white supremacy

American nationalism, like all other nationalisms, is an imagined concept of belonging and community. In this regard, it is not

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