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Hip Hop, Masculinity, and “The Get Down”

Why does it seem like hip hop can handle only a handful of prominent female MCs at a time? Roxanne

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Representations of Black Women in Cuba

With the continued box office success of the Fate of the Furious, we are once again returning to the idea

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Beyond Respectability: A New Book on Black Female Public Intellectuals

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

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Bound in Wedlock: A New Book on Slave and Free Marriage in the 19th Century

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

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Race, Homosexuality, and the AIDS Epidemic

In “America’s Hidden HIV Epidemic,” her recent cover story for New York Times Magazine, Linda Villarosa documents the struggles of

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“The Revival: Women and The Word”: A New Film on Queer Women of Color

This post is part of my blog series that announces the release of new films in African American History and African Diaspora Studies.

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The Poetic Theology of Essex Hemphill

Facing the innumerable deaths of friends and loved ones, as well as the likelihood of his own untimely passing, Washington,

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Sex, Swimming, and Chicago’s Racial Divide

Sunday, July 27, 1919, was a hot, sweltering, sunny day at Chicago’s Twenty-Ninth Street Beach. When fourteen-year-old Eugene Williams, who

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African Spirituality and the Power of Religious Reclamation

Return to the moment you first saw Beyoncé emerge through the iron doors in the golden-yellow gown as water flows

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The Future Is Black and Female: Afrofuturism and Comic Books

For comic book and superhero fans worldwide, the release of Captain America: Civil War on May 6, 2016 became permanently

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“Black Enuf*”: A New Animated Documentary on Black Queer Identity

This post is part of my blog series that announces the release of new films in African American History and African Diaspora Studies.

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Interracial Intimacy and Film as Social Commentary

Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court struck down anti-miscegenation laws in Loving v. Virginia. In 1969, the first interracial sex scene

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The Man-Not: A New Book on the Dilemmas of Black Manhood

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

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Portraits of Black Womanhood

When I first encountered Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait d’une Negresse at the Louvre, I had just researched and encountered the remains of

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“Black Enuf*”: A New Animated Documentary on Black Queer Identity

This post is part of my blog series that announces the release of new films in African American History and African Diaspora Studies.

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Interracial Intimacy and Film as Social Commentary

Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court struck down anti-miscegenation laws in Loving v. Virginia. In 1969, the first interracial sex scene

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The Man-Not: A New Book on the Dilemmas of Black Manhood

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

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Portraits of Black Womanhood

When I first encountered Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait d’une Negresse at the Louvre, I had just researched and encountered the remains of

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Teenage Feminism Decades before “Girl Power”

*This post is part of our online forum on Student Activism. As civil disobedience in schools escalated in the postwar era, teenage girls

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Eugenics and the Modern Conservative Movement

On December 26, 2017, The New York Times published an op-ed by the widely known North Carolinian activist, Rev. William

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