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A Response to Black Studies Readers, Dancers, Students, and Teachers

May 22, 2023May 19, 2023 Jafari Sinclaire Allen #AAIHSRoundtable, sexuality

This post is part of our online roundtable on Jafari S. Allen’s There’s a Disco Ball Between Us. “Crossings,” M. Jacqui Alexander reminds

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Coke Money and Apartheid Divestment in U.S. Higher Education

May 10, 2023May 11, 2023 Amanda Joyce Hall Activism, Apartheid, Emory, South Africa, Student Movement

Philanthropic gifting to US higher education amounted to an astronomical $52.9 billion in 2021. Higher education has enjoyed a long

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The Revolutionary Language of Black Abolitionists

May 8, 2023May 8, 2023 Frank Kalisik race, slavery

In the summer of 1854, a group of free Black men and women from across the United States met in

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In Afeni’s Shadow: the Impact of Trauma on a Revolutionary Life

May 1, 2023April 30, 2023 Cheryl X. Dong Activism, Black Power, black radical tradition, Black women

Tupac Shakur wrote  “Dear Mama” to celebrate his mother’s strength and plea for her love.  The song is an unfiltered

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The Families of the Louisiana Native Guards

April 26, 2023April 25, 2023 Anthony J. Cade II #BlackMilitaryFamilies, Black Family, Civil War, Louisiana, Women

This post is part of our online forum on Black Military Families in the Nineteenth Century. On May 1, 1861,

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