‘Race Women Internationalists’: A New Book on Global Freedom Struggles
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Race and Music in Memphis
*This post is part of our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light In 1992, Rufus Thomas was interviewed by
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Slavery and Memory in Charleston, South Carolina
The familiar refrain after the Emmanuel AME massacre on June 17, 2015, was that Dylann Roof, the murderer, was not
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“An Unseen Light”: On the History of Black Memphis
*This is the introduction to our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light Richard Wright had to leave Memphis.
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African Americans and the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement
The cartoon appeared in the October 1949 issue of New Africa, the monthly anti-imperial bulletin of the New York-based Council
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