The Complex Life of Writer Chester B. Himes
The prologue to Lawrence P. Jackson’s biography of Chester Himes begins with the twenty-five-year-old Himes sitting at a typewriter in
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Enslaved People in Eighteenth-century Britain: An Interview with Nelson Mundell
In today’s post, Keisha N. Blain, Senior Editor of Black Perspectives, interviews Nelson Mundell about the new online database, Runaway Slaves
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Black Rights and Black Citizenship in Antebellum Baltimore
Throughout my life, I have grappled with the precarious and vulnerable nature of Black life in the United States and
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Silence and the Inner Lives of Black Nationalist Women
*This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Set the World on Fire Mittie Maude Lena Gordon, Celia Jane Allen,
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Slavery, Family Separation, and the Ransom Case of John Weems
During the nineteenth century, several state laws prohibited, or restricted the ability of African Americans to testify against white people.
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