Black Studies

The Expansion of Soul Foods

It was Amiri Baraka who said a “Harvard Negro” wouldn’t know how to get down, and Ebony’s Freda DeKnight who said we

I first became aware of Dr. Jason Chambers, professor of advertising at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, through his

In “Don’t Cash Crop My Cornrows,” a video created for her high school history class that later went viral, Amandla

Black women have been “winning” for Black freedom since the sixteenth century. Groups of enslaved African and African-descendant women who

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