Black Cheerleaders and A Long History of Protest
In November 2018, Kayla Morris, a member of the San Francisco 49ers’s Gold Rush cheerleading squad, became the first NFL
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Black women
Aretha Franklin, Sexual Violence, and the “Culture of Dissemblance”
Many have proposed that Black American cultural expressions created in the New World — jazz, the blues, gospel, R&B, the
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A Black Womanist Requiem for Katie G. Cannon
Katie G. Cannon’s untimely death, has compelled me to begin this reflection at the funeral. Not hers; but my first funeral
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Race Women Internationalists and Global Black Freedom Struggles
In her 1932 article entitled “The Awakening of Race Consciousness among Black Students,” Afro-Jamaican intellectual Una Marson advanced a theory
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The Struggle for Voting Rights and the Poor People’s Campaign
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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