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“An Outrage”: A New Film about Lynching in the American South

March 22, 2017March 27, 2017 Michael T. Barry Jr. #FilmFeatures, documentary, film, lynching, South

This post is part of a new blog series that announces the release of new films in African American History

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“Held in Trust by History:” The Intellectual Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr.

March 16, 2017March 18, 2017 Christopher Tinson Activism, black intellectual history, Historiography

On the morning of December 11, 2016, a notice in the Chicago area news read as follows: “Author Lerone Bennett

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The Signifyin(g) Saint: Encoding Homoerotic Intimacy in Black Harlem

March 14, 2017March 17, 2017 James Padilioni Jr Black Queers, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, New York, religion, W.E.B. Du Bois

On June 25, 1942, Edward Atkinson arrived at 101 Central Park West to sit for a photo shoot in the

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From Concentration Camps to the Senate: Black Women in the French Resistance

March 13, 2017March 16, 2017 Annette Joseph-Gabriel Anticolonialism, Black women, France, Resistance

The role that over a million African soldiers played in World War II has garnered interest in recent years. Calls for countries

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Ghosts of the Atlantic: An Author’s Response

March 11, 2017March 14, 2017 Sowande' Mustakeem #SlaveryAtSea, archives, slave trade, slavery

This post is part of our online roundtable on Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea. Slavery haunts the present. Yet, not

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