The Black Intellectual Traditions That Shaped Frederick Douglass
The United States recently marked 250 years since the adoption of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. For this occasion, a
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A Black Woman’s Story of Sacrifice and Survival
On January 4, 1861−one week before Alabama officially seceded from the Union−a 65-year-old freed Black woman named Sally Johnson, petitioned
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Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez and the African American Community of New Orleans during the Civil War
Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez lived an extraordinary life. He traveled the world, earned two medical degrees, started two newspapers, and was an activist during
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Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, and the NAARPR
In June 1972, an all-white jury acquitted Angela Davis of charges in her alleged role in an August 1970 Marin County, California
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Black Trans Feminism: Marquis Bey interviewed by Guy Emerson Mount
In this interview I speak with Marquis Bey about their new book Black Trans Feminism which takes a broadly abolitionist
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