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Black History, Sequential Art, and the Power of Representation

May 26, 2018June 2, 2018 John Craig #BlackPanther, art, Black Power, comics, Visual Culture

*This post is part of our blog series on The World of the Black Panther. This series, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter Greason,

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Chocolate Cities: A New Book on the Black Map of American Life

May 26, 2018October 13, 2018 J. T. Roane black protest, blackness, culture, gentrification, Migration, Resistance

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Centering Women in the Nation of Islam

May 23, 2018May 26, 2018 Ashley Farmer #PromiseofPatriarchy, archives, black politics, Black Power, Black women, Nation of Islam, religion, self-determination

This post is part of our online roundtable on Ula Taylor’s The Promise of Patriarchy  In her 2008 seminal essay, “Women

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“Left Exposed to View!”: Black Women and Sexualized Violence

May 11, 2018May 15, 2018 Trimiko Melancon lynching, police brutality, police violence, Racial Violence, Resistance, sexual violence

In May 1962, Malcolm X delivered a commanding speech with his now infamous lines regarding the positionality of Black women:

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The Historical Roots of Blues Music

May 9, 2018May 15, 2018 Lamont Pearley Sr. Great Migration, Mississippi, music, slavery

Contrary to what some people believe, the blues is not “slave music.” Although it was cultivated by the descendants of slaves,

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