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The Black Radical Tradition in *The Dawn of Everything*

January 21, 2022January 20, 2022 Kevin Suemnicht black intellectual history, black lives matter, slavery

Amidst ongoing racial injustice, the threat of global climate change, and the disappointing aftermath of the George Floyd Rebellion, is

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Lawrence Reddick and the Communal Acts of Black History

October 7, 2021October 6, 2021 Stephen G. Hall academia, black intellectual history, Black Power, Black Reconstruction, Higher education

African American history has always been a communal act. From its inception in the nineteenth century, Black men and women,

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Black Women, Sanderson Farms, and the Strike for Better Conditions

October 4, 2021October 3, 2021 Derrion Arrington Activism, Black women, Gender

African American Women in Industry, 1939-1945 (New York Public Library)     “Try Miss Goldy Chickens, and try a little

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Haiti and US Policing

September 3, 2021September 2, 2021 Willie Mack African Diaspora, black politics, Haiti

The recent assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Möise and the power vacuum he left have deep roots in United States

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Unmarked and Unburied: the Unsettling of Black Death

August 10, 2021August 12, 2021 Crystal Webster #AAIHSRoundtable, #contestedcitizenship, race, Racial Violence

The contemporary “discovery” of unmarked graves and unburied bodies of African Americans remains a disturbing reality of the Black experience.

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