Marronage and the Great Dismal Swamp
For recent scholars, the Great Dismal Swamp—an ecological treasure that stretches across present-day Virginia and into North Carolina—stands as a
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Blackness, Freedom, and the Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana
Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana radically reorients our perspective on Blackness and slavery
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Rebuiding Church (A Poem)
St. John’s Got to scrappin’, grappling With Deshae out some windows And Mt. Landing Out the others. Her pews
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Unite the Right, Colin Kaepernick, and Social Media
On April 22, 1820, Thomas Jefferson captured the crux of America’s race problem in a letter to Maine politician John
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Where Has All the Loving Gone? A Review of the New Film, ‘Loving’
A new film about the Southern working class couple whose love and dedication broke the back of anti-miscegenation laws across
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