Remembering Gwen Patton, Activist and Theorist
“Ideas are powerful,” Dr. Gwendolyn Patton used to say when she talked to the younger generation about civil rights and political
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Civil Rights Organizations, the Black Press, and Ethnic Nationalist Movements in Africa
As African societies began to break the shackles of colonial domination during the mid-twentieth century, African Americans looked to these
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Coretta Scott King, The Archive, and Black Feminist Methods
For someone so prominent, learning about Coretta Scott King’s life and labors apart from those of her late husband is
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The Little Known History of Black Women Using Soda Fountains as Contested Spaces
The accurate accusation of tone-deafness has been circulating to frame the now-defunct Pepsi ad staring Kendall Jenner. For those who
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Rosa Parks and the Image of Respectability
This post is part of our online roundtable on Black Women and the Politics of Respectability. Since the day she
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