Martin Luther King Jr. on Making America Great Again
On February 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. stood before the congregation of Ebenezer Baptist Church, and preached his final
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Black Identity
African Americans and Africa: A New Book about Black America’s Relationship with the Continent
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Dying Laughing: Black Fugitivity and Black Queer Precarity
If, as Ralph Ellison writes, Black laughter is, as an expression of Black humanity, a threat to white social order
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On Lived Experience
*This post is part of contributor Marquis Bey’s On Suite series. It took me the longest time to get a
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On Suite: Series Introduction
The proposition for this series is one that hinges on hubristic humility, paradoxically enough. That is, while the series entries
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