A Country of Their Own: An American Ex-Slave’s Search for Homeland in Panama
While wandering through the maze of microfilm one afternoon at the Archivo General de la Nación in Bogotá, Colombia, I
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Brother to Brother: An Open Letter to Nate Parker
Dear Brother Nate: I write to you as my brother because I cannot think of anything else to call you
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What’s in a List?: Early African Americans in an Age of Consumer Revolution
As many scholars of early African American life can attest, one of the most vexing aspects of doing research is
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Nate Parker, Rape Culture, and Toxic Masculinity
Over the past seventy-two hours, the Internet has been abuzz over Nate Parker’s involvement in a seventeen-year-old rape case. Journalists
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“Stalwart Presence for a Generation at Williams College”: Remembering Leslie Brown
It should go without saying, but I miss Leslie Brown. What she did for an entire generation of scholars can
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