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“Before Brown”: A CBFS Interview

January 19, 2024January 18, 2024 Lucien Baskin black queer studies, CBFS, interview, military, WWII

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

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Sabotage of the First Black New Orleans Journalist

January 16, 2024January 3, 2024 Bala Baptiste Civil Rights Movement, racism, Resistance

It was a hot, balmy day in the Crescent City of New Orleans in June of 1970 when Warren Brown

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Movie Theaters, the Urban North, and Policing the Color Line

December 5, 2023November 30, 2023 Alyssa Lopez film, Jim Crow, police brutality, Resistance

While America’s urban areas witnessed a massive boom in the popularity of motion pictures and moviegoing in the early twentieth

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Enshrining Black Countermodernism & New Deal Skepticism

November 27, 2023November 8, 2023 Dylan O’Hara black intellectual history, FWP, literature, New Deal, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston

J.J. Butts’ new work, Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project, provides a close reading of the ways

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Black Administrative Politics and the Question of the US State

November 21, 2023December 1, 2023 Frances O'Shaughnessy Politics, race, reconstruction, Resistance

In his book Administering Freedom, labor organizer and historian Dale Kretz asks how formerly enslaved Black people made freedom meaningful through

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