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Black Public History in Chicago

July 30, 2018August 8, 2018 Betsy Schlabach Activism, archives, Black Arts Movement, black politics, Black Power, Chicago, civil rights, museums, Public History

As part of the research for his book Black Public History in Chicago: Civil Rights Activism From World War II

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Archiving While Black

June 18, 2018June 23, 2018 Ashley Farmer archives, Historical Memory

Among the things 2018 will be known for is mainstream culture’s realization that white Americans use the police to challenge

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Langston Hughes on Film: An Interview with Darren Canady and Randal Maurice Jelks

June 12, 2018June 16, 2018 Imani A. Wadud archives, art, black intellectual history, blackness, film, Harlem Renaissance, music

In today’s post, University of Kansas PhD Candidate, Imani A. Wadud, interviews Darren Canady and Randal Maurice Jelks on their new

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The Promise of the Nation of Islam

May 24, 2018June 5, 2018 Robyn C. Spencer #PromiseofPatriarchy, archives, Black women, Nation of Islam, religion, self-determination

This post is part of our online roundtable on Ula Taylor’s The Promise of Patriarchy Controversy over the Nation of Islam

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Centering Women in the Nation of Islam

May 23, 2018May 26, 2018 Ashley Farmer #PromiseofPatriarchy, archives, black politics, Black Power, Black women, Nation of Islam, religion, self-determination

This post is part of our online roundtable on Ula Taylor’s The Promise of Patriarchy In her 2008 seminal essay, “Women

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