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Black Gods Among Us: In and Beyond HBO’s Watchmen

February 11, 2020February 9, 2020 Ahmad Greene-Hayes #Watchmen, Black Queers, race, Racial Violence, racism, religion, Resistance, Visual Culture, white supremacy

*This post is part of our online forum organized by Ahmad Greene-Hayes on HBO’s hit series Watchmen.  In the early

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On Nostalgia: HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ and Black Religion in Three Sacred Facts

February 10, 2020February 9, 2020 Rhon Manigault-Bryant #Watchmen, Black film, digital media, film, music, popular culture, religion

*This post is part of our online forum organized by Ahmad Greene-Hayes on HBO’s hit series Watchmen.  Warning: This essay

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The Black Avenger: ‘The Essential Trope of Atlantic Modernity’

February 6, 2020February 2, 2020 Benjamin Fagan #BlackPanther, African Diaspora, Caribbean, comic books, comics, Haiti, racism, white supremacy

In the years before and since the release and reception of the blockbuster 2018 film, Black Panther, the iconic Marvel

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Blackness, Freedom, and the Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana

February 5, 2020February 5, 2020 Karen Cook Bell citizenship, Cuba, freedom, law, Louisiana, Virginia

Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana radically reorients our perspective on Blackness and slavery

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Housing Discrimination in the Jim Crow US and The Case for Reparations

February 4, 2020February 2, 2020 AAIHS Editors housing, segregation, urban history

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

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