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Billie Holiday and the Black Arts Movement

December 7, 2022December 5, 2022 Whit Frazier Peterson Billie Holiday, Black Arts Movement, Blues, jazz, music

The Black Arts Movement (BAM) was a controversial, politically charged cultural uprising, which James Smethurst, in his eponymous study of

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Lorraine Hansberry and the Black Radical Tradition

September 6, 2022August 31, 2022 Shane Vogel #AAIHSRoundtable, #RadicalVision, black intellectual history, Black women

This post is part of our online roundtable on Soyica Diggs Colbert’s Radical Vision Soyica Diggs Colbert’s Radical Vision: A Biography

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Writing on the Legacy of May Ayim

June 3, 2022June 2, 2022 Tiffany Florvil African Diaspora, Black Europe, Black German Movement, Germany, May Ayim, Transnational Feminism

In her suicide note on August 9, 1996, Black German activist-intellectual May Ayim sadly wrote, “I have lived and experienced

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A Mortal Man’s Heart: Kendrick Lamar and Black Masculinity

May 13, 2022May 12, 2022 Zion McThomas black boys, Gender, hip hop, Kendrick Lamer, masculinity

We haven’t heard from Kendrick Lamar (as far as solo projects) since the 2017 Pulitzer Prize winning album DAMN. Kendrick

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Excavating Black Queer Thought: A Pride Bibliography (Part III)

June 14, 2021June 13, 2021 Emerald Rutledge African Diaspora, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, blackness, Gender, LGBT, literature, poetry, race, sexuality

In honor of Pride Month 2021, I wanted to extend the list of texts from the bibliography offered last year,

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