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August 19, 2014 (January 11, 2016)

“James Brown is a freedom I created for humanity”

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The release of the film Get On Up in early August rekindled interest in the life and music of James Brown. One of the most staggeringly influential entertainers in American […]

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August 18, 2014 (August 11, 2014)

Cheryl LaRoche: Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad

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Cheryl Janifer LaRoche‘s book, Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad, examines the “geography of resistance” and tells the powerful and inspiring story of African Americans ensuring their own liberation […]

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August 12, 2014 (August 7, 2014)

Roberta Gold: tenants’ rights and equitable citizenship

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Economic inequality has been making headlines, and so have mitigating measures like living wage bills, which have passed in several cities. There is no denying the importance of such reforms. […]

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August 1, 2014 (July 31, 2014)

Brazil’s sex tourism perceptions and culture

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Erica Lorraine Williams visited the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University to discuss her book Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements. In her talk, Williams examines the impact of […]

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July 29, 2014

Darlene Clark Hine awarded National Humanities Medal

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Darlene Clark Hine, co-editor of The New Black Studies Series, has been awarded with the 2013 National Humanities Medal. President Barack Obama presented the award to Hine at the White […]

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July 24, 2014 (July 28, 2014)

Q&A with Jean Toomer: Race, Repression, and Revolution author Barbara Foley

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Barbara Foley is a professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. She is the author of Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New Negro. She answered some questions […]

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July 10, 2014 (July 7, 2014)

Q&A with Regina Anderson Andrews author Ethelene Whitmire

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Ethelene Whitmire is an associate professor of library and information studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She answered some questions about her book Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian. Q: Who was […]

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June 3, 2014 (June 3, 2014)

Happy birthday, Jimmy Rogers

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Jimmy Rogers was born James A. Lane on this day in 1924. As Wayne Everett Goins notes in Blues All Day Long, his new biography of Rogers, the legendary guitarist […]

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May 17, 2014 (May 16, 2014)

Brown v. Board of Education turns 60

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On May 17, 1954 the United States Supreme Court handed down a ruling that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” This was the landmark ruling on Brown v. Board of […]

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May 1, 2014

Ruth Nicole Brown: “Black girlhood is freedom”

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Ruth Nicole Brown is an assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Hear Our Truths: The Creative Potential of […]

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April 14, 2014 (April 11, 2014)

Q&A with Sex Tourism in Bahia author Erica Lorraine Williams

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Erica Lorraine Williams is an assistant professor of anthropology at Spelman College.  She answered some questions about her book Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements. Q: For your book research you […]

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April 4, 2014

Living with Lynching on C-SPAN’s BookTV

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On Friday, March 14, 2014, Koritha Mitchell, author of  Living with Lynching:  African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930, spoke at the James Madison Memorial Building of the Library of Congress. At […]

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