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‘The Bone and Sinew of the Land’: An Interview with Historian Anna-Lisa Cox

October 9, 2018October 18, 2018 Adam McNeil landownership, slavery

In today’s post, blogger Adam McNeil interviews Anna-Lisa Cox about her new book, The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America’s

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Envisioning Black Memphis at Midcentury

October 9, 2018October 18, 2018 Beverly Greene Bond Black women, racism, religion, Unseen Light

*This post is part of our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light By 1940, Memphis, Tennessee was – with

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“An Unseen Light”: On the History of Black Memphis

October 8, 2018October 17, 2018 Aram Goudsouzian and Charles W. McKinney Activism, black lives matter, Black Power, black protest, Black women, civil rights, Gender, Racial Violence, Resistance, Unseen Light

*This is the introduction to our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light Richard Wright had to leave Memphis.

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African Americans and the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement

October 5, 2018October 8, 2018 Jessica Ann Levy Activism, African Diaspora, black internationalism, black protest, racism, Resistance, South Africa

The cartoon appeared in the October 1949 issue of New Africa, the monthly anti-imperial bulletin of the New York-based Council

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The Deportation of Claudia Jones

October 5, 2018October 8, 2018 Denise Lynn black nationalism, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Blacks in Britain, Claudia Jones, criminal justice system

This is the final installment in a three-part series on Claudia Jones. Read the first and second installments. At the

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