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Philadelphia’s ‘Black Shining Prince’

February 13, 2024February 9, 2024 Menika Dirkson Activism, education, Philadelphia

Securely tucked away in the Print Department of The Library Company of Philadelphia’s collection of over 100,000 photographs, maps, drawings,

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The Black Poet’s Journey Through the Iron Curtain

February 6, 2024February 6, 2024 Caio Fernandes Barbosa art, Black Arts, Brazil, poetry, Soviet Union

In late July 1955, after sailing to France and then taking a train to Poland, the Brazilian Black poet Solano

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Dorothy Porter, Archives, and the Preservation of Black Studies

February 5, 2024February 2, 2024 Derrion Arrington African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Black women

The explosive growth of Black studies programs and departments after 1968 triggered a wave of bibliographic scholarship. Colleges, universities, and

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#BlackThoughtsMatter

January 30, 2024January 23, 2024 Guy Emerson Mount black intellectual history, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, education

This article was originally published on June 28, 2015 As nine beautiful Black minds are laid to rest and Confederate

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Searching for Lucy Parsons: A Racial Riddle

January 29, 2024January 29, 2024 Emily England Activism, Gender, race, Resistance

This article was originally published on March 22, 2015.  How do I accurately discuss a historical person who was known

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