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The Black Freedom Struggle, Healthcare Activism, and the Affordable Care Act

March 5, 2017March 8, 2017 Ashley Farmer Activism, Black Panther Party, Black Panthers, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement

At a recent press conference President Donald Trump remarked, “nobody knew that healthcare could be so complicated.” This statement was

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On Teaching Afro-Cubana Feminisms

March 4, 2017March 8, 2017 Devyn Spence Benson Afro-Cubans, black feminism, Black women, Cuba, feminism, Latin America

Black and mulata women have participated in constructing Cubanidad (Cuban nationalism) since the beginning of the Cuban republic in 1902.

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Resurrecting Slavery: A New Book on Racial Legacies in France

March 4, 2017March 6, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi colonialism, France, racism, slavery, white supremacy

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

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Race and Imperialism in Canada in the 1960s

March 3, 2017March 6, 2017 Paul Hébert Canada, imperialism

In recent years, scholars and activists in Canada have been drawing more attention to the country’s often-unacknowledged history of slavery.

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Booker T. Washington and the White Fear of Black Charisma

March 2, 2017March 6, 2017 Jeremy C. Young Barack Obama, black politics, black protest, W.E.B. Du Bois

First, the crowd gathered at the Atlanta Exposition on September 18, 1895, heard the band play “Dixie”; then they listened

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