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Essex Hemphill. Photo: Poetry Foundation.

Excavating Black Queer Thought: A Pride Bibliography

June 28, 2019June 26, 2019 Emerald Rutledge black feminism, Black film, Black Queers, blackness, Gender, race, Resistance, sexuality

To close out Pride Month 2019, I compiled a list of texts ranging from traditional academic works to cultural

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Dressed in Dreams: A New Book about the Power of Black Fashion

June 25, 2019June 24, 2019 J. T. Roane Activism, art, Black women, fashion, Gender, Resistance

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Roberta Elder: The Case of a Black Woman Serial Killer

May 28, 2019May 28, 2019 Denise Lynn Black women, Gender, police violence, violence, white supremacy

The killings may have started as early as 1938, but no one suspected murder until Reverend William M. Elder died

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Untangling Madam C.J. Walker’s Story

May 24, 2019May 24, 2019 A’Lelia Bundles #WalkerCentennial, Activism, black politics, Black women, Gender, Madam CJ Walker

*This post is part of our online forum on Madam C.J. Walker for the centennial anniversary of her death. As

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Mack Ingram and the Policing of Black Sexuality

May 7, 2019May 5, 2019 Denise Lynn Activism, black protest, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Gender, Jim Crow, race, Racial Violence, racism, white supremacy

In 1951, Mack Ingram was arrested, found guilty, and sentenced to two years of hard labor for looking at a

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