Film Blackness, Hollywood Whiteness
“What if black film could be something other than embodied? What if black film was immaterial and bodiless? What if
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Book Review
The History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital
2018 marks the fiftieth anniversary of a crucial moment for Washington, D.C. On April 4, 1968, following news of Dr.
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Race, Freedom, and Extermination in America and the Atlantic World
Kay Wright Lewis’s new book, A Curse Upon the Nation: Race, Freedom, and Extermination in America and the Atlantic World (University
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The Life and Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
With this past June marking the 100th anniversary of Gwendolyn Brooks’s birth, it is important that we reflect on the life and
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Faith, Myths, and Black Prometheus
In A Black Theology of Liberation, James H. Cone controversially asserted, “If God is not for us, if God is not
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