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Writing Black Activist Lives: An CBFS Interview

March 28, 2023March 26, 2023 Lucien Baskin Black Power, black protest, Black women

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black

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Pittsburgh Reformers and the Black Freedom Struggle

February 9, 2023February 7, 2023 Ashley Everson #CanaanDim, #Roundtable, Great Migration, NAACP, Pittsburgh, Urban League

This post is part of our online roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan, Dim and Far. Historian Adam Lee Cilli’s

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Louis Congo: Ex-Slave and Executioner of Louisiana

January 25, 2023January 23, 2023 Menika Dirkson Early Republic, Louis Congo, Louisiana, Punishmnet, slavery

On November 21, 1725, African slave Louis Congo was freed and made a salaried public executioner in Louisiana by the

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George Jackson in a Global Frame

January 24, 2023January 25, 2023 Andrew Anastasi black intellectual history, Black Power

Fifty years ago, George Lester Jackson’s Blood in My Eye dropped like a bomb, but the author did not live to hear

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The Untethered Tongue: Lifting the Black Feminine Voice in Jazz

December 16, 2022December 27, 2022 Sandra Booker Billie Holiday, jazz, music, Nina Simone, Women

What is freedom? Freedom is existing unrestrained in thoughts, actions, and achievements but is not absolved from the world’s reactions

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