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The Legacy of Sandra Bland: An Interview with Poet Simone John

July 9, 2018July 12, 2018 Phillip Luke Sinitiere #SandraBlandForum, #sayhername, Black women, poetry, Sandra Bland

This post of part of our online forum on Sandra Bland, coinciding with the third anniversary of her death. The forum includes

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Stuart Hall: “Familiar Stranger” of the Black Atlantic

July 6, 2018July 9, 2018 Marlene Gaynair African Diaspora, Black Europe, Blacks in Britain, Caribbean, Jamaica

Stuart Hall’s posthumous memoir, Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands, is the most recent entry in his eponymous book

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Frederick Douglass on the Fourth of July

July 4, 2018July 6, 2018 AAIHS Editors Frederick Douglass, slavery

*The following post is an abridged version of Fredrick Douglass‘ famed speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?,”

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African Americans, Palestine, and Solidarity

July 2, 2018July 5, 2018 Russell Rickford black internationalism, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, police violence, Racial Capitalism

The specter of Palestine haunted my spring semester Black Radical Tradition course at Cornell University. Midway through the term, the

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“My Brother in All the Ways That Count”: Remembering Jeffrey B. Ferguson

June 29, 2018July 1, 2018 Uday Singh Mehta #JeffreyFerguson

This post is part of a week-long forum, organized by Mary Hicks, honoring Professor Jeffrey Brown Ferguson who passed away on March

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