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America’s Enslaved Dead

October 31, 2016October 30, 2016 Brandon Byrd Haiti, Zora Neale Hurston

On Sunday, November 8, 1936, Zora Neale Hurston received the exciting news: there was a zombie at the hospital in

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Haunting Harmonies: Filmic Sounds in 12 Years a Slave and The Birth of a Nation

October 21, 2016October 20, 2016 Rhon Manigault-Bryant Black film, music, The Birth of a Nation

The recent release of The Birth of a Nation (Fox Searchlight, 2016) has resulted in a surprising blaze of dissonant

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Not Another Slavery Movie

October 18, 2016October 17, 2016 Janell Hobson Black film, black protest, Nate Parker, slavery, The Birth of a Nation

Even before controversial director Nate Parker debuted his Nat Turner movie, The Birth of a Nation, black voices emanated from Black

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Black Women, Slavery, and Silences of the Past

September 28, 2016September 26, 2016 Brandon Byrd black intellectual history, Black women, emancipation

Power does not enter the story once and for all, but at different times and from different angles. It precedes

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When Slaves Go on Strike: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction 80 Years Later

December 28, 2015December 28, 2015 Guy Emerson Mount Activism, black politics, Politics, reconstruction, W.E.B. Du Bois

Slaves freed themselves.  With this majestic assertion in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois all but cemented Black Reconstruction as one of

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