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Frederick Douglass, Haiti, and Diplomacy

February 11, 2017February 15, 2017 Brandon Byrd Frederick Douglass, Haiti

Frederick Douglass was doing an amazing job and deserved more and more recognition. That idea dawned on Republican President Benjamin

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Resisting Racism and Islamophobia: Lessons from Muslim Slave Narratives

February 9, 2017February 13, 2017 Annette Joseph-Gabriel Haiti, marronage, racism, religion, slavery

The highly contested executive order that sought to deny citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries entry into the United States has

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History As A Communal Act: The History of Black History Month

February 1, 2017January 30, 2018 Stephen G. Hall black intellectual history

African Americans have always imagined and constructed history as a communal act. At the inception of the African American historical

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Race, History, and the #ScienceMarch

January 30, 2017March 13, 2017 Christopher F. Petrella black politics, Donald Trump, Politics, Trumpism

Donald Trump is an anti-science president. In fact, his entire raison d’être—perhaps unsurprisingly—stands at cross-purposes with the scientific method, systematic

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Power to the People: Attica and Radical Reconstruction

January 26, 2017January 28, 2017 Russell Rickford #BloodintheWater, carceral state, mass incarceration, police violence

This is the fifth day of our roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison

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