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The Many Women Mentors of Malcolm X

May 3, 2016May 4, 2016 Ashley Farmer black internationalism, black politics, black protest, Malcolm X

The release of Beyoncé’s Lemonade has prompted many viewers and critics to remark on her inclusion of Malcolm X’s statements

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Prefiguring the African American “Postcolony”: Black Independent Schools and the Quest for Liberation

April 25, 2016December 30, 2016 Reena Goldthree #AAIHSRoundtable, #WeAreAnAfricanPeople, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Pan-Africanism

This week (April 25-30), we are hosting a roundtable on Russell Rickford’s We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black

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The Mysterious Thelma X and the Struggle of Black Domestic Workers

April 3, 2016April 3, 2016 Garrett Felber black nationalism, Black women, Nation of Islam

Several years ago, I was looking through the papers of sociologist C. Eric Lincoln at the Robert W. Woodruff Library

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Teaching Religion, Politics, and Civil Rights

March 7, 2016March 6, 2016 Chernoh Sesay Jr. Activism, black politics, black protest, civil rights, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., teaching

With undergraduates I recently explored the complexity of thought among several Civil Rights writers and activists. During our conversation, students

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Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion (Book Review)

September 28, 2015September 29, 2015 Guy Emerson Mount culture, music, religion

  Jason C. Bivins. Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp.xvi, 369. $29.95 I first met Oluyemi

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