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Black Women Resisting Racial Violence: A CBFS Interview

August 29, 2022August 23, 2022 Lucien Baskin black feminism, Black women, Racial Violence

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

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Tricksters, Biographies, and Two-Faced Archives

June 2, 2022June 1, 2022 K. T. Ewing Alberta Hunter, biography, Blues, Chicago, Memphis, Methodology

In 2015, precisely 31 years to the day of her death, blues and cabaret singer Alberta Hunter was inducted into

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Black Power and Anti-Carceral State Infrastructure

July 12, 2021July 10, 2021 Joshua L. Crutchfield black lives matter, Black Power, Black radicalism, Black women

In 1991, Black radical activist Safiya Bukhari spoke to an audience and reflected on her decision to join the Harlem

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#AAIHS2021: A Virtual Conference on “The West”

March 19, 2021April 18, 2021 Stefan Bradley

Today, the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) begins its sixth annual conference–and our first ever virtual conference! This year’s

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Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World

February 26, 2021February 21, 2021 Robert D. Taber African Diaspora, archives, black feminism, Black women, Gender, race, slave trade, slavery

Trite historical surveys of the Black experience in the United States will feature questions of identity politics (Combahee River Collective

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