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Life Lessons from Georgetown’s Basketball Coach John Thompson

John Thompson Jr. often said, “I tell everyone I speak two languages fluently—English and profanity.” He used language and stories

In her book In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, scholar Christina Sharpe described her concept of “wake work” as “a

We still have far too few histories of Black journalists. Even as biographers have written on Alex Haley, Ethel Payne,

Earlier this year, political scientist and Black feminist Julia Jordan-Zachery asked the question, “What do Black women think about the

In today’s post, Emerald Rutledge, an associate editor of Black Perspectives, interviews Briona Simone Jones on her new edited collection, Mouths of