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Aesthetic Insurgency: Sandra Bland’s Presence in Poetry

July 11, 2018July 13, 2018 Phillip Luke Sinitiere #SandraBlandForum, #sayhername, poetry, police brutality, police violence, Sandra Bland

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

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Black Women, Mental Health, and Slow Violence

July 10, 2018July 12, 2018 Alaina Morgan #SandraBlandForum, #sayhername, Black women, police brutality, police violence, Sandra Bland

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

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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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