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Black Freethinkers: A New History of African American Secularism

September 27, 2019September 20, 2019 J. T. Roane Black Freethought, black intellectual history, religion

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Confronting Data Capitalism: An Interview with Grassroots Organizer Tamika Blu

September 26, 2019September 23, 2019 Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt #BlackOrganizingToday, Activism, black lives matter, black politics, black protest, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, capitalism, police brutality, Resistance

This post is part of our Black Organizing Today Series. This series, edited by Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt, consists of interviews highlighting

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Unilever’s Ads and the History of Sexual Abuse Under Slavery

September 19, 2019September 19, 2019 Thomas A. Foster art, Gender, race, Racial Violence, racism, sexuality, slavery

In a typical US advertisement for Magnum ice cream, a young, attractive white woman devours an ice-cream treat coated in chocolate. The

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Transnational Legacies of Slavery and Revolution in ‘The Black Scholar’

September 18, 2019September 16, 2019 Cristina Mislán African Diaspora, Afro-Cubans, black internationalism, Black Power, Caribbean, Cuba, Pan-Africanism, race

Some months after visiting Havana, Cuba in late fall of 1976, Robert Chrisman — editor-in-chief of the journal The Black Scholar —

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Elite Activism: Survival and Resistance in the Ivies

September 11, 2019September 16, 2019 Shirletta Kinchen #AAIHSRoundtable, #UpendingTheIvoryTower, Activism, black politics, Black Power, education, race, W.E.B. Du Bois, white supremacy

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Stefan M. Bradley’s Upending the Ivory

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