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Black Identity and the Power of Self-Naming

Black identity is the most political social identity used to identify people of African descent in the United States. The

*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study

On the night of March 29, 2019, an administrative building at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market,

Galveston, Texas, may best be remembered as the provenance of Juneteenth. However, in the universe of Black history, the island

Of all the Black-owned businesses that thrived on “Black Wall Street,” it is the Dreamland Theatre that stands as the