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Aesthetics of Chaos in Ballroom’s Sonic Production

October 27, 2022October 25, 2022 J.M. Nimocks #Bounce, Aesthetics, dance, LGBTQ+, music, Sound

“Do you speak the language of cunt?” – Iconic Commentator Kevin JZ Prodigy To date, the ballroom scene is experiencing

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Toward the Preservation of Black Joy in Public Memory

October 18, 2022October 13, 2022 Jessy Ohl, Shalonda Capers, and Caran Kennedy Racial Violence, Resistance

Representations of Black experiences remain frustratingly narrow in public commemoration efforts across the U.S. For many decades, and especially in

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The Local Politics of Fannie Lou Hamer

October 6, 2022October 4, 2022 Stefan Bradley #UntilIAmFree, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, democracy, Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi, SNCC

This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Until I Am Free. By age 44, most people

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Fannie Lou Hamer and American Democracy

October 5, 2022September 29, 2022 Peniel E. Joseph #UntilIAmFree, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, democracy, Fannie Lou Hamer

This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Until I Am Free. Fannie Lou Hamer, the sharecropper

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Conference 2023 – General Information

Groups marching to demand climate and racial justice. (Photo by: Steve Sanchez)   #AAIHS2023 The African American Intellectual History Society

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