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Celebrating Gospel Music After the Civil Rights Era

May 20, 2021June 5, 2021 Keiara Price religion, spirituality

Late in March 2021, Black Twitter became enraptured by a leaked call between critically acclaimed gospel artist, Kirk Franklin, and

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Black Bourgeois: A New Book about the Dilemma of Black Middle-Class Embodiment in the Post-Civil Rights Era

April 3, 2020April 1, 2020 AAIHS Editors class, embodiment, literature, Performance

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

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Black Women Comrades in the Struggle for Liberation

September 20, 2024September 19, 2024 Maria Martin 0 Comments
#BlackWomensActivismInTheDiaspora, Activism

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women’s Activism in the African Diaspora.”  “Dear Comrade,” began a letter

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Examining Identity in Louisiana’s 19th-Century Black Literature

September 12, 2024September 12, 2024 Tanguy GIL 0 Comments
France, literature, Louisiana

Slave narratives were a central genre of African American literature in antebellum America. Still, some authors wrote fiction works, the

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Education and Liberation: A CBFS Conversation

May 8, 2024May 5, 2024 Lucien Baskin black internationalism, Civil Rights Movement, education, race

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black

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