“More and More Influential”: Frederick Douglass and Donald Trump
As President Trump recently said on the occasion of Black History Month, Frederick Douglass “is being recognized by more and
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Cosmological Queerness Across the Yoruba Diaspora
The constellating topics of homosexuality and masculinity are perennial to Black American discourses. In contemporary debates, the chorus shouting loudest
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Black Women and the Peoples Temple in Jonestown
On November 18, 1978, over nine hundred members of the San Francisco-based Peoples Temple church (including over three hundred children)
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Race, Class, and Television: A First Look at Brazil’s Dystopic Drama 3%
3% is Netflix’s latest original series ordered up from Latin America, and the first from Brazil. Set in a dystopic
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Migration, Diasporic Self-Making, and Madame De Mena: An Interview with Courtney Morris
In today’s post, Kami Fletcher, an Assistant Professor of African American History at Delaware State University, interviews Courtney Desiree Morris about
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