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Allegiance, Birthright, and Race in America

August 4, 2021August 3, 2021 William Darity Jr. and Charles Ali Bey #contestedcitizenship, civil rights, race, slavery, South

“This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study

The Problem of White-Washing Juneteenth

June 23, 2021June 23, 2021 James Jones III Racial Violence, slavery, South, W.E.B. Du Bois, white supremacy

Juneteenth’s increasing popularity places long-time celebrants in an unenviable position where euphoria regarding Jubilee’s popularity is tempered by the threat

The Historical Roots of Abolition in the Twenty-First Century

June 11, 2021June 9, 2021 Julia Bernier Activism, black radical tradition, Haiti, slavery, white supremacy

In June 2020 Mariame Kaba penned an opinion piece in the New York Times entitled, “Yes We Literally Mean Abolish

Biographies of Women and Emancipation in the Americas

February 11, 2021February 11, 2021 Vanessa M. Holden Activism, African Diaspora, Black women, Gender, Resistance

Last fall, many people waited anxiously for the results of the U. S. elections. From Tuesday, November 3rd through Saturday,

The Story of an Atlantic Slave War

February 9, 2021February 9, 2021 Adam Thomas African Diaspora, Caribbean, Racial Violence, Resistance

In a 1935 copper miners’ strike in the British colony of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), historian C. L. R. James