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The Complex Life of Writer Chester B. Himes

October 15, 2018October 17, 2018 Lavelle Porter archives, black intellectual history, Harlem Renaissance, literature, sexuality

The prologue to Lawrence P. Jackson’s biography of Chester Himes begins with the twenty-five-year-old Himes sitting at a typewriter in

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‘Race Women Internationalists’: A New Book on Global Freedom Struggles

October 12, 2018October 17, 2018 Melissa N. Shaw Activism, African Diaspora, black internationalism, black protest, Black women, colonialism, fascism, Resistance

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Slavery and Memory in Charleston, South Carolina

October 11, 2018October 17, 2018 Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders Resistance, slavery, South

The familiar refrain after the Emmanuel AME massacre on June 17, 2015, was that Dylann Roof, the murderer, was not

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Beauty, Black Power, and Black Student Activism in Memphis

October 10, 2018October 17, 2018 Shirletta Kinchen Activism, black protest, Black women, race, racism, Unseen Light

*This post is part of our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light “Everybody come in that’s going to jail with

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Lynching and the Rise of Black Activism in Memphis

October 9, 2018October 17, 2018 Darius J. Young lynching, race, Racial Violence, racism, Unseen Light

*This post is part of our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light “All the savor had gone out of life.

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