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Black Women and the Peoples Temple in Jonestown

January 31, 2017February 3, 2017 Sikivu Hutchinson religion

On November 18, 1978, over nine hundred members of the San Francisco-based Peoples Temple church (including over three hundred children)

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On Black Girlhood

November 19, 2016November 15, 2016 Farah Jasmine Griffin

This piece was originally published on Public Books and is reprinted here with permission. The bikini-clad teen is thrown to

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Voting Is Not A Right of U.S. Citizens: Revisiting the 1866 Civil Rights Act

November 6, 2016November 3, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi civil rights

This piece was originally published in AHA Today, a blog of the American Historical Association, as “The Promise and Peril of

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North of Dixie: A New Book on Civil Rights Photography Beyond the South

November 1, 2016January 1, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi

This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African

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Women’s Leadership in the Organization of Afro-American Unity

October 27, 2016October 28, 2016 Garrett Felber #WomenandPanAfricanismSeries, Malcolm X, Pan-Africanism

*This is the sixth post in a new blog series on Women, Gender and Pan-Africanism edited by Keisha N. Blain.

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