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Hip Hop and Disability: An Interview with Leroy Moore Jr.

July 1, 2017April 3, 2018 Darryl Robertson #HipHopSeries, disability

This month I interviewed Bay area artist and producer Leroy Moore Jr., co-founder of the Sins Invalid performance project and

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Black Power, Education, and the History of the Peoples College

May 17, 2017May 20, 2017 Richard D. Benson II Activism, black intellectual history, Black Power, education

Over the past several years, scholars such as Ibram X. Kendi, Martha Biondi, Russell Rickford, and others have produced scholarship

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Another Look Into Dana Schutz’s “Open Casket”

May 10, 2017May 13, 2017 Robyn Autry art, museums

Recently, I visited the Whitney Museum’s Biennial at its new location in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan. I was there

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Black Rage at the Organization of American Historians

May 6, 2017May 10, 2017 Guy Emerson Mount black intellectual history, police violence, Racial Violence, violence

The theme of this year’s Organization of American Historians conference in New Orleans was circulation. For black communities beyond academia,

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Respectability Politics and Shonda Rhimes, a Black Woman Showrunner

April 28, 2017May 1, 2017 Ralina Joseph #politicsofrespectability, Black women, television

This post is part of our online roundtable on Black Women and the Politics of Respectability. Black women’s visibility on

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