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#MuseumsRespondtoFerguson: An Interview with Aleia Brown and Adrianne Russell

September 29, 2016September 27, 2016 Kami Fletcher digital media

This month I interviewed the founders of a new digital humanities project, #MuseumsRespondtoFerguson. Aleia Brown (left) is the co-founder of #MuseumsRespondtoFerguson

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Beyond Today’s Vote: Constructions of Black Identity Then and Now

September 9, 2016September 8, 2016 Chernoh Sesay Jr. Phillis Wheatley

“The political and cultural identities of black people have never been reducible to a discrete and unified list of interests

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Reconsidering Jesse Jackson: The Caricature, The Person, The Politician-Part 2

September 2, 2016September 3, 2016 Guest Poster Jesse Jackson, New Democrats, Rainbow Coalition

This post, written by Tim Lacy, was originally published on the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s blog and is reprinted here with permission.

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Teaching the African Diaspora in Canada

August 24, 2016August 24, 2016 Kami Fletcher Canada

As a scholar of African American history, I teach students about the experience of Africans in the Americas. Through survey

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Nate Parker, Rape Culture, and Toxic Masculinity

August 20, 2016August 20, 2016 Deirdre Cooper Owens Nat Turner, Nate Parker, rape

Over the past seventy-two hours, the Internet has been abuzz over Nate Parker’s involvement in a seventeen-year-old rape case.  Journalists

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