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Paule Marshall’s “Brooklyn” and the #MeToo Movement

July 18, 2018July 23, 2018 Lavelle Porter Black women, Civil Rights Movement, New York, Racial Violence, sexual violence

“Sexual harassment? We didn’t even think to use the term back in the early fifties when this story takes place,”

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W.E.B. Du Bois, Gender, and Black History

June 5, 2018June 16, 2018 Lavelle Porter black intellectual history, literature, Resistance, W.E.B. Du Bois, white supremacy

In Axel’s Castle, critic Edmund Wilson wrote of Gertrude Stein’s enigmatic novel of nearly a thousand pages, The Making of Americans,

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W. E. B. Du Bois, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual

April 21, 2018April 24, 2018 Lavelle Porter education, literature, W.E.B. Du Bois

The Quest of the Silver Fleece, published in 1911, is the first of five novels that W. E. B. Du

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Representing HBCUs: Spike Lee’s “School Daze” at 30

March 23, 2018March 26, 2018 Lavelle Porter Black cinema, Black film, blackness, education, Resistance, white supremacy

On the night of February 11, 2018, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) hosted two sold out screenings for the

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W. E. B. Du Bois and the Representation of Black Higher Education

February 21, 2018February 24, 2018 Lavelle Porter #AAIHSRoundtable, #DuBoisForum, black intellectual history, reconstruction, South, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. In a previous post for Black Perspectives, I wrote

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