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The Curious History of Anthony Johnson: From Captive African to Right-wing Talking Point

July 22, 2019July 22, 2019 Tyler Parry African Diaspora, archives, black politics, education, Historical Memory, Politics, race, reparations, slavery

In various corners of the internet, memes circulate about a Black man identified as “Anthony Johnson,” believed to be a

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Jazz and Justice: A New Book on Racism and the Political Economy of the Music

July 22, 2019July 17, 2019 Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt art, black politics, culture, jazz, Jim Crow, music, St. Louis

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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DC Jazz: A New Book about Jazz Music in Washington, DC

July 19, 2019July 9, 2019 J. T. Roane art, jazz, music, Washington DC

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Mapping Blackness in Yugoslavia and Post-Yugoslav Space

July 17, 2019September 16, 2019 Sunnie Rucker-Chang African Diaspora, Black Europe, capitalism, Communism, Pan-Africanism, race, Soviet Union

96-year-old Fatmire is one of the few remaining members of a small and relatively unknown Afro-Albanian “Black” community in Montenegro, a

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Local Politics and Black Freedom After the Civil War

July 10, 2019June 30, 2019 Karen Cook Bell Activism, black politics, economic justice, landownership, Politics, race, reconstruction, Resistance, South, voting

On June 4, 1870 Joshua C. Legree opened an account with the Savannah, Georgia branch of the Freedmen’s Bank. Three

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