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Brazilian Politics and the Rise of the Far-Right

January 7, 2019January 29, 2019 Daniela Gomes Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, repression, Resistance

On October 28, Brazil elected its 38th President, Jair Bolsonaro, making a core of his 57 million supporters extremely happy

Rhodes Must Fall: A New Book on the Oxford Student Movement

January 2, 2019January 29, 2019 Keisha N. Blain Activism, decolonization, race, Resistance, South Africa, student activism, white supremacy

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

The Rhetoric and Methods of the 1963 Mississippi Freedom Vote

December 14, 2018December 24, 2018 Denise Lynn Mississippi, racism, Resistance, South, voting, white supremacy

After attempting to register Black voters, pushing school integration, and challenging segregation in transportation throughout the 1950s, activists in Mississippi

Literacy, History, and African American Spirituals

December 13, 2018December 24, 2018 Karen Cook Bell #BlackLivesMatter, race, religion, Resistance, slavery

In his 1935 interview with Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Quarterman, a ninety-one-year-old formerly enslaved man, shared a

Frederick Douglass’s Childhood of “Extremes”

November 27, 2018December 3, 2018 David Blight Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass Forum, Resistance, slavery

*This post is part of our online forum on the life of Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass possessed an extraordinary memory. By all