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Lift Every Voice and Sing: On The Power of the Black National Anthem

July 4, 2019July 3, 2019 Erica Ball education, James Weldon Johnson, music, NAACP, segregation

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a song that most Black Americans of my generation know so deeply that it

The Education of Black Boys

January 31, 2019February 2, 2019 Nadrea Njoku black feminism, black intellectual history, Gender, masculinity, race

In both Keisha Lindsay’s In A Classroom Of Their Own: The Intersection of Race and Feminist Politics in All-Black Male

Black Feminism: The Beginning and End of a World

December 3, 2018December 7, 2018 L.H. Stallings #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackonBothSides, black feminism, Black radicalism, Gender, race, sexuality

*This post is part of our online roundtable on C. Riley Snorton’s Black on Both Sides. For this roundtable, I have been

Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago

September 13, 2018September 18, 2018 Teona Williams Activism, Chicago, environment, Great Migration, Migration

Towering skyscrapers dotting the Lake Michigan coastline, “snowy winds,” “blistering suns,” and roaring streets described what Richard Wright aptly called

The Realness of ‘Pose’

July 26, 2018July 31, 2018 James Padilioni Jr Black Queers, Harlem, New York, television

The FX series Pose premiered in June 2018 to rave reviews for its historic depiction of the New York City house and