Hip-Hop in the Trump Era
I found out about Kanye West’s October 2018 meeting with Donald Trump through memes on social media. At first, I
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black intellectual history
Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production in African Studies
In the United States, African scholars are conspicuously underrepresented in the field of African Studies. For years, Black scholars have
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Making ‘A Nation Within A Nation’: An Interview with Komozi Woodard
*This post is part of our online roundtable celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the publication of Komozi Woodard’s A Nation Within
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The Women of the Committee for Unified Newark (CFUN)
*This post is part of our online roundtable celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the publication of Komozi Woodard’s A Nation Within
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‘The Drum Major Instinct’: A New Book about Martin Luther King, Jr.
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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