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The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics

September 18, 2018September 19, 2018 Daniel Matlin Black Arts Movement, black feminism, Black Power, black protest, race

In Percival Everett’s satirical novel Erasure (2001), a struggling author in need of money to pay for his elderly mother’s

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Pan-Africanism: A New Book on the History of a Global Movement

September 12, 2018September 16, 2018 Keisha N. Blain African Diaspora, black politics, Black Power, Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, Pan-Africanism, W.E.B. Du Bois

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

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Remembering James Cone: Kind and Fierce Iconoclast

September 6, 2018September 8, 2018 Lilian Calles Barger black politics, Black Power, freedom, James Cone Forum, liberation theology, Philosophy, religion

*This post is part of our online forum on the Life and Legacy of Dr. James H. Cone. The late theologian James Cone

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Black Public History in Chicago

July 30, 2018August 8, 2018 Betsy Schlabach Activism, archives, Black Arts Movement, black politics, Black Power, Chicago, civil rights, museums, Public History

As part of the research for his book Black Public History in Chicago: Civil Rights Activism From World War II

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50 Years Since Detroit’s Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement

July 19, 2018July 26, 2018 Duncan Tarr Activism, Black Power, black protest, black radical tradition, capitalism

On July 8, 1968, a group of Black autoworkers led a wildcat strike that partially shut down Chrysler Corporation’s Dodge

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