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Finding My Brother’s Keeper

April 19, 2015April 20, 2015 Rhon Manigault-Bryant

I don’t often hear from my brother Maurice, but when I do, I realize within minutes of the conversation and

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Black Women March on Washington: The Sojourners for Truth and Justice and Black Women’s Lives Matter

April 17, 2015April 20, 2015 Ashley Farmer

Before the 1963 March on Washington a group of African American women stormed the gates of the capital demanding that

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Fighting for Freedom: Free Women of African Descent in New Orleans and Beyond

April 12, 2015April 12, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson black protest, black rebellion, Civil War, freedom, reconstruction, slavery

Delivered at the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival on Saturday, March 28, 2015 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the panel

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Searching for Lucy Parsons: A Racial Riddle

March 22, 2015March 24, 2015 Lauren Kientz Anderson Chicago

This is a guest post by Emily England, a senior history and anthropology double major with a museum studies minor

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“Black People and the Victorian Ethos:” Respectability Politics, Black Organizing, and Black Power

March 17, 2015March 17, 2015 Ashley Farmer

When someone is engaging in respectability politics, he or she is adopts the manners and morality of the dominant or

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