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The Roots of “Malcolmology”

April 10, 2016April 9, 2016 Russell Rickford black nationalism, Black radicalism, Malcolm X

For me, as for many children of the 1980s, the recent death of Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest

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Global Garveyism: Mapping Those at Home and Abroad

April 1, 2016January 1, 2017 Guest Poster Garveyism, Marcus Garvey, Universal Negro Improvement Association

This is a guest post by Adam Ewing, an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He

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A Meditation on Rape, Rape Culture, News, and History

March 20, 2016March 20, 2016 Guest Poster rape, violence

Today’s guest blog post is written by Starita Smith, a former daily newspaper reporter and editor. She worked for the Gary

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#AAIHS2016: New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition (Day Two)

March 11, 2016March 15, 2016 Guest Poster

Today is the second day of our conference, “New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition,” at the University of North

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The Bonds of History

February 25, 2016February 25, 2016 Christopher Bonner slavery

In recent years, Whitney Plantation has been transformed into a site for the memory of African enslavement in American and

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