The Complexities and Contradictions of the Nation of Islam
This post is part of our online roundtable on Ula Taylor’s The Promise of Patriarchy In The Promise of Patriarchy: Women
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Book Review
Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History
The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History opens up with a list of chattel—the names
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Louise Thompson Patterson and Black Radical Politics
On September 16, 1984, exactly one week after Louise Thompson Patterson turned eighty-three years old, an extravaganza was held in
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Progressive Movements and the Importance of Failure
Mary Frances Berry’s History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times could not have arrived
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Performance Traditions and the “Mardi Gras Indians” in New Orleans
Countless theories surround the history of the “Mardi Gras Indians,” Black organizations in New Orleans that don suits inspired by
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