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September 25, 2015 (September 25, 2015)

The Boy Who Was Traded for a Horse

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Black media pioneer Richard Durham was never an on-air star or featured player. Yet the poet, activist and script writer had a huge influence on how African Americans could be […]

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September 1, 2015 (August 25, 2015)

$2.99 eBook sale to celebrate the Association for the Study of African American Life and History conference

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For the month of September 2015, to coincide with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History annual meeting September 23-27 in Atlanta, we have lowered the […]

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August 28, 2015 (August 28, 2015)

Bird’s birthday brings celebration to Kansas City

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On August 29, 1920 Charles Parker, Jr. was born in Kansas City, Kansas. As Chuck Haddix writes in Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker, the jazz icon’s launching […]

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August 25, 2015 (August 25, 2015)

Brotherhood

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This day in 1925, activist A. Philip Randolph led the organization of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a campaign Randolph declared nothing less than “a significant landmark in the […]

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July 22, 2015 (July 20, 2015)

Regina Anderson Andrews biography wins Wheatley Book Award

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Ethelene Whitmire has received  the 2015 Wheatley Book Award for First Nonfiction for her book Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian. The Wheatly Awards are presented by QBR: The Black Book Review and the Harlem […]

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July 16, 2015 (July 17, 2015)

Happy Birthday Ida B. Wells

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As Google has reminded many of you, today marks the birthday of civil rights pioneer, suffragette, anti-lynching activist, and sociologist Ida B. Wells. This remarkable woman participated in many crusades in the […]

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July 6, 2015 (June 9, 2015)

Daisy Turner’s words

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Daisy Turner was a woman of many words. The storyteller and poet was a living repository of history. She related the stories of her own family, from the abduction of […]

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May 12, 2015 (March 18, 2015)

Happy International Nurses Day

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In observance of International Nurses Day, an excerpt from Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps, by Clarissa J. Threat. Before 1941 African Americans did not ignore […]

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March 23, 2015 (March 19, 2015)

Appalachian Dance by Susan Eike Spalding awarded

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We are pleased to announce that Appalachian Dance: Creativity and Continuity in Six Communities by Susan Eike Spalding has been awarded the Weatherford Award in non-fiction by Berea College and […]

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March 9, 2015 (March 9, 2015)

The Creolization of American Culture wins Irving Lowens Book Award

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The Creolization of American Culture: William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy by Christopher J. Smith has been awarded the Irving Lowens Book Award by the Society for […]

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February 2, 2015

$2.99 eBook sale to celebrate Black History Month

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For the month of February 2015, to coincide with Black History Month, we have lowered the e-book list price of four titles in the University of Illinois Press catalog to […]

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January 19, 2015 (January 16, 2015)

Martin Luther King’s life remembered and examined by David Levering Lewis

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Initially published soon after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., David Levering Lewis’s King: A Biography was acclaimed by historians as a foundational work on the life of the civil rights […]

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