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An Appeal –Bring the Maroon to the Foreground in Black Intellectual History

June 19, 2020June 17, 2020 Yannick Marshall black intellectual history, marronage, race, Racial Violence, racism, Resistance, violence, white supremacy

Within the larger narrative of slave resistance, maroons offered a unique experiment. They created and exposed to whites and blacks

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‘A White Man Took Her’: Trauma, Loss, and Grief among the Enslaved

April 13, 2020April 12, 2020 Tyler Parry Civil War, Marriage, mourning, Post-Civil War, Racial Violence, slavery, violence

In November 1864, a formerly enslaved man named Peter Bumper and his fiance Bucinda Nelson had their marriage registered with

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Fantastic and Fatal Coalitions: Revisiting ‘Blood Syndicate’

October 8, 2019October 6, 2019 Rebecca Wanzo #comicsandrace, #MilestoneMedia, black intellectual history, comic books, comics, race, urban history, violence

*This post is part of our online forum on the Black-owned and -controlled Milestone Media. In 1983, Bernice Johnson Reagon

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Stop Killer Cops: Police Brutality, Mass Incarceration, and the Liberal Establishment

September 4, 2019August 31, 2019 AAIHS Editors Activism, Los Angeles, New York, organizing, police violence, policing, racism, urban history, violence

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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Roberta Elder: The Case of a Black Woman Serial Killer

May 28, 2019May 28, 2019 Denise Lynn Black women, Gender, police violence, violence, white supremacy

The killings may have started as early as 1938, but no one suspected murder until Reverend William M. Elder died

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