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Black Women’s Activism through History and Poetry

October 2, 2023September 7, 2023 Cathleen D. Cahill Black women, Carrie Williams Clifford, Club women, freedom, poetry

“Somehow, we’ve weathered and witnessed a nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished.” -Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb  Those

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Hope, Faith, and Metaphor in African American History

September 25, 2023August 31, 2023 Nico Slate African American history, Barack Obama, Black History, History, Martin Luther King Jr.

In November 2022, the Chief Justice of India, D.Y. Chandrachud, cited Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. while encouraging his fellow

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African Americans and the State Militia

September 22, 2023September 7, 2023 Gregory Mixon antebellum, citizenship, Civil War, military, Militia

What is the historical relationship between African Americans and the state militia? Today, some may believe the militia to be

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African American Women on the American Railroad

September 19, 2023August 27, 2023 Daleah B. Goodwin antebellum, travel

Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad by Miriam Thaggert examines African American women’s engagement with the railroad

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Global Blackness: More than Strangers, More than Citizens

September 14, 2023September 7, 2023 April J. Mayes #TranslatingBlackness, Haiti, Immigration, Racial Capitalism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness. There she stood, in the middle of a dirt

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