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Slavery and Disability Discourse

September 16, 2021September 15, 2021 Christopher D. E. Willoughby racism, slavery

In an 1851 report to the Louisiana Medical Association, New Orleans physician Samuel Cartwright coined the term “drapetomania”—the disease that

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The Significance of Yasuke, the Black Samurai

September 15, 2021September 14, 2021 Warren A. Stanislaus Black radicalism, Resistance

After the Second World War, US Soldiers in Japan (flickr.com)   In April 2021 Netflix released the much-anticipated anime series

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Anti-Communism and A Raisin in the Sun

September 13, 2021September 12, 2021 Denise Lynn black intellectual history, black politics, Black radicalism

                           Lorraine Hansberry Speaking to an Audience, 1959 or

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Black Identity and the Power of Self-Naming

September 10, 2021September 8, 2021 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. black lives matter, education, Resistance

Black identity is the most political social identity used to identify people of African descent in the United States. The

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Alphaeus Hunton: The Fight for Equality and Liberation during WWII

September 9, 2021September 8, 2021 Tony Pecinovsky African Diaspora, black politics, Black radicalism

It has been argued that the Communist Party, USA (CPUSA) neglected the struggle for African American equality during World War

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