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Black Women, Self-Making, and Liberty

October 11, 2021October 11, 2021 Ashley Everson Black women, slavery

Historian Tamika Nunley introduces At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery and Shifting Identities in Washington D.C. with the anecdote

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Lawrence Reddick and the Communal Acts of Black History

October 7, 2021October 6, 2021 Stephen G. Hall academia, black intellectual history, Black Power, Black Reconstruction, Higher education

African American history has always been a communal act. From its inception in the nineteenth century, Black men and women,

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A Jubilee: Can HBCU Publications Revamp Education?

October 6, 2021October 5, 2021 Rochelle Spencer and DeLisa Harris Activism, black intellectual history, education, HBCU, Newspapers

  Thank you to the the library team at Fisk University, especially Dr. Brandon Owens and Dr. Magana Kabugi; their

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Martin Luther King, Jr. and 1619

September 22, 2021September 22, 2021 Robert Greene II black protest, civil rights, race

Martin Luther King, Jr. being Interviewed, with Coretta Scott King next to him, October 20, 1965 (Wikimedia Commons)   Throughout

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The Countercurriculum of Black Education

September 21, 2021September 19, 2021 Gloria Ashaolu black intellectual history, education

The discourse on anti-racist curriculum and praxis within educational spaces—both formal and informal—saw massive growth in the summer of 2020.

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