On Stanford’s All White Male History Conference
In December 1969, a group of historians organized the Coordinating Committee of Women Historians in the Profession, which, in 1995,
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Representing HBCUs: Spike Lee’s “School Daze” at 30
On the night of February 11, 2018, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) hosted two sold out screenings for the
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Searching for the Black Organizational Past
Growing up I heard many stories about my parents’ involvement in the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, a collective dedicated
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The Absence of Political Economy in African Diaspora Studies
The Black Studies movement, inaugurated in the late 1960s by student- and community-based demands for a “more relevant education,” represented
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The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
One of the most painful and haunting images that I recall from Stanley Nelson’s documentary, Tell Them We Are Rising:
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