Billie Holiday and the Black Arts Movement
The Black Arts Movement (BAM) was a controversial, politically charged cultural uprising, which James Smethurst, in his eponymous study of
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Art
Sex, Race, and Gender in Bounce Music Culture
This post is part of our forum on Bounce Music “We’re bouncing the whole time,” states Big Freedia—a gender non-conforming
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Call for Submissions: Black Women and Jazz
Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), invites blog posts for an online forum
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Black Perspectives Summer Books Preview, Part I
There are a plethora of books being released this summer which will be of special interest to readers of this
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W.E.B. Du Bois and the Aesthetics of Emancipation
“I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty and for Beauty to set the
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