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“They’re Chatterboxes with their Feet”: Black Dances in Early Modern Spain

November 12, 2018November 19, 2018 Nicholas R. Jones African Diaspora, black internationalism, Caribbean, Cuba, music, Resistance

In his Premática del Tiempo (1628; 1648), Francisco de Quevedo berates Black African slave culture flourishing on Spanish soil. What

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Reclaiming the Tricontinental: Transnational Solidarity and Contemporary Struggles

November 9, 2018November 26, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Cuba

In a speech at the Hudson Institute on October 4, 2018, Vice President Mike Pence all but declared a new

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The Life and Legacy of Political Scientist Hanes Walton, Jr.

November 7, 2018November 11, 2018 Daniel HoSang black intellectual history, black politics, race

In 1970, Vincent Harding contributed an essay to the inaugural issue of the Journal of Black Studies titled “Black Students

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Alain Locke: Father of the Harlem Renaissance

November 6, 2018November 11, 2018 Anastasia Curwood Harlem, Harlem Renaissance

Sometime during the Great Depression, a young working-class Black man acquired a 1925 first-edition copy of The New Negro: An

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Corporate Influence and the Legacy of Black Power

November 6, 2018November 11, 2018 E. James West Black Panther Party, Black Power, black protest, Black radicalism, capitalism, police violence, Resistance

My recent piece for Black Perspectives examined the relationship between Nike and Spike Lee in the wake of the company’s

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