A Reverence for Hope: On Struggle, Faith, and Persistence
“Poetry is not a luxury.” — Audre Lorde America horrifies me. Its savagery and vulgarity. Its appetite for racial terror.
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Black Power, Education, and the History of the Peoples College
Over the past several years, scholars such as Ibram X. Kendi, Martha Biondi, Russell Rickford, and others have produced scholarship
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The Art of Domination: On Decolonizing the Curriculum
Those professors among us who teach from the perspective of the oppressed are often tasked with un-teaching what our students
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Another Look Into Dana Schutz’s “Open Casket”
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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Masterless Men: A New Book on Poor Whites and Slavery
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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