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Politics, Public History, and Memory: An Interview with Niya Bates

April 17, 2019August 12, 2022 J. T. Roane Historical Memory, historical preservation, Public History, slavery

In today’s post, senior editor J. T. Roane interviews Niya Bates, a native of Charlottesville, Virginia and a two-time graduate of the

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The Women of the Committee for Unified Newark (CFUN)

April 2, 2019August 12, 2022 Ashley Farmer #NationWithinANation, Activism, black feminism, black intellectual history, black nationalism, Black Power, black protest, Black women, race

*This post is part of our online roundtable celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the publication of Komozi Woodard’s A Nation Within

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Audley Moore and the Modern Reparations Movement

February 28, 2019March 9, 2019 Ashley Farmer #QueenMotherMoore, Activism, africa, African Diaspora, Audley Moore, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black Leaders, Black Marxism, black nationalism, Black Panther Party, Black Panthers, Black political thought, black politics, Black Power, black protest, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Black women, Communism, Communist Party, Garveyism, Marcus Garvey, Marxism, Pan-Africanism, race, racism, reparations, slavery

Today’s post is part of a week-long series featuring excerpts from a special issue on activist Queen Mother Audley Moore.

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Harriet Tubman. Photo: Wikipedia.

Black Women’s Anti-Colonizationist Political Thought

February 22, 2019August 12, 2022 Adam McNeil abolitionism, Black political thought, Black women, slavery

Black women have always been at the forefront of Black political movements. From Maria Stewart and Ida B. Wells-Barnett in

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Paul Laurence Dunbar, Racial Uplift, and Collective Identity

February 19, 2019March 31, 2019 Matthew Teutsch black intellectual history, race

On December 8, 1896, Paul Laurence Dunbar met with John Wesley Cromwell, Alexander Crummell, Walter B. Hayson, and Kelly Miller

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