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Braveheart for Black People: A Review of Birth of a Nation

October 25, 2016October 24, 2016 Alden Young Black film, Nate Parker, The Birth of a Nation

I was invited to see Nate Parker’s dramatic retelling of Nat Turner’s 1831 rebellion right before it opened to the

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Revolving Doors of Fugitivity: Marronage and the Military

October 15, 2016October 14, 2016 Greg Childs black soldiers, Brazil, marronage

In October 1776, the governor of the Brazilian city Salvador da Bahia sent out letters encouraging municipal councils, landowners, captains

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Is the Myth of Racial Harmony Killing Our Country?

October 3, 2016October 4, 2016 Devyn Spence Benson black internationalism, black protest, police brutality

My eyes draw open, fixing on the silhouette of the spinning blades of the ceiling fan above my bed. After

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What’s Missing from Black Counternarratives to Donald Trump

September 26, 2016September 25, 2016 Andrea Roberts 2016 Presidential Election, Donald Trump

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s speeches and faux outreach to African Americans before all-white crowds in Michigan and Milwaukee in

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Teaching the African Diaspora in Canada

August 24, 2016August 24, 2016 Kami Fletcher Canada

As a scholar of African American history, I teach students about the experience of Africans in the Americas. Through survey

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