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The Invisible Threads of Gender, Race, and Slavery

April 13, 2017June 22, 2017 Sasha Turner Black women, Gender, slave trade, slavery

On March 24, 2017 the United Nations commemorated its ten-year anniversary for the International Day of Remembrance honoring the Victims

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On Barbados, the First Black Slave Society

April 8, 2017April 12, 2017 Sir Hilary Beckles African Diaspora, Barbados, slave trade, slavery

Barbados was the birthplace of British slave society and the most ruthlessly colonized by Britain’s ruling elites. They made their

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Black Land Ownership and Megaproject Development in Nicaragua

April 8, 2017April 11, 2017 Jennifer Goett Black women, capitalism, Latin America, racism

Afro-Nicaraguans have been living in the shadow of infrastructure megaprojects for more than a century as both landholders and laborers.

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Race and Civil Rights Dramas in Hollywood

March 24, 2017March 28, 2017 Justin Gomer civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, film

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of Stanley Kramer’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, starring the iconic Sidney Poitier. During the

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Howard University and the Dream Sequence

March 23, 2017March 27, 2017 Josh Myers black politics, black radical tradition, freedom

The idea of “the Dream Sequence” was introduced to me by Howard alum and former professor Acklyn Lynch, a figure

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