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Torpedoing Black Radicalism: The Case of Hugh Mulzac

October 28, 2021October 26, 2021 Tony Pecinovsky Alphaeus Hunton, Anti-Communism, Black Veterans, Communism, Hugh Mulzac, Labor Movement, Marian Anderson, McCarthyism, Socialism, WWII

  It was late October 1942. The crew of the Liberty Ship Booker T. Washington had just “lashed down the last crate

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Black Women and the Southampton Rebellion

October 27, 2021October 26, 2021 Robert Colby Black women, Black Women's History, Nat Turner, Slave Revolt, slavery, Southampton

In 2003, Kenneth Greenberg edited a collection of essays on the Southampton County, Virginia, slave revolt commonly known as Nat

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The Rise and Fall of an Afro-Brazilian Publisher

October 20, 2021October 19, 2021 Celso Thomas Castilho black intellectual history, Resistance, slavery

Francisco de Paula Brito (1808-61), an Afro-Brazilian man of letters, “a son and grandson of freedpersons,” catalyzed critical transformations in

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Hair Discrimination and Global Politics of Anti-Blackness, Part 1

October 19, 2021October 18, 2021 Adele Norris black feminism, black hair, black identity, Black Power, Black women, black youth

  Recent cases of Black hair/style regulation and punishment in Britain, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States reveal

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Texas’ Long Celebration of Juneteenth

October 18, 2021October 17, 2021 Nakia D. Parker Resistance, slavery, South

  On June 18, 2021, President Joseph Biden signed legislation that made “Juneteenth,” the commemoration of the event on June

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