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Celebrating Black Intellectual History–Then and Now

October 24, 2024October 25, 2024 Lois Leveen 0 Comments
black intellectual history, teaching

In “Don’t Cash Crop My Cornrows,” a video created for her high school history class that later went viral, Amandla

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Revisiting Salaria Kea’s Story

October 23, 2024October 21, 2024 Gina Benavidez 0 Comments
black feminism, black internationalism, Transnational Feminism

During the interwar period, Salaria Kea became one of the most famous Black American antifascist women of the early 20th

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African Americans and the First Black Republic

September 25, 2024September 21, 2024 Sherri V. Cummings 1 Comment
black protest, Haiti, Haitian Revolution

It is difficult to talk about Haiti. For the past two months the island nation has been mired in violence

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Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States

September 10, 2024September 4, 2024 Michael Lawrence Dickinson 0 Comments
Haiti, Haitian Revolution

“What happened in Haiti between 1791 and 1804 contradicted much of what happened elsewhere in the world before and since..But

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Black Women’s Fiction and Medical Experimentation

September 9, 2024September 9, 2024 Norrell Edwards 0 Comments
medical experimentation, race

The Covid-19 pandemic laid bare existing racial inequalities in our healthcare system. The magnified death toll for Black and Brown

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