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Self-Revision as Praxis

June 7, 2022June 16, 2022 Sherry Johnson #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackWomenBio, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Black women

The ax forgets, but the tree remembers. – African proverb “Forgetting is the true death.” – Mama Koko Zauditu Selassie,

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W.E.B. Du Bois and the Aesthetics of Emancipation

April 21, 2022April 20, 2022 Clay Matlin art, artistic production, Beauty, black artists, W.E.B. Du Bois

“I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty and for Beauty to set the

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Remembering Ronald (X) Stokes and the Politics of Black Solidarity

April 11, 2022April 10, 2022 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. black nationalism, Black Power, police violence

It has been 60 years since the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) killed Ronald (X) Stokes, wounded several others, and

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Malcolm X’s Gospel

March 28, 2022March 27, 2022 Ellen McLarney black intellectual history, black nationalism

In April 1957, Malcolm X began writing his “God’s Angry Men” column in the New York Amsterdam News, immediately after the brutal police

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‘Nationtime’ Shows That Blacks, Too, Have Become More Inclusive

March 23, 2022March 22, 2022 Wayne A. Young Amiri Baraka, Barbara Jordan, black politics, Gary, Gary Convention, Nationtime, Richard Gordon Hatcher

When William Greaves’ film about the 1972 National Black Political Convention, which took place in my hometown of Gary, Indiana,

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