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Global Black Studies at Duke
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The Department of African and African American Studies at @DukeU
Durham, NC
aaas.duke.edu
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    Global Black Studies at Duke
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    Jun 27, 2025
    National Humanities Center Announces Dr. Blair LM Kelley as New President @DukeBlackAlumni @DukeAlumni @DukeHistoryDept nationalhumanitiescenter.org/national-human…
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    Global Black Studies at Duke
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    Jun 16, 2023
    North Carolina’s first Black-owned children's bookstore opens ahead of Juneteenth
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    North Carolina’s first Black-owned children's bookstore opens ahead of Juneteenth
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    Global Black Studies at Duke
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    Dec 16, 2018
    A Database of Fugitive Slave Ads Reveals Thousands of Untold Resistance Stories hyperallergic.com/435183/freedom…
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    Global Black Studies at Duke
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    Nov 22, 2023
    A record 6.9 million people have been displaced in Congo’s growing conflict, the U.N. says
    FILE - People displaced by conflict wait for the arrival of United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean Pierre Lacroix in Bunia, eastern Congo, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. The United Nations migration agency says a record 6.9 million people have been displaced by conflict across Congo, making it one of the world’s largest displacement and humanitarian crises. The International Organization for...
    A record 6.9 million people have been displaced in Congo's growing conflict, the U.N. says
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    Global Black Studies at Duke
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    Oct 22, 2023
    The Visual Power of Black Rest 'Black people are generally pictured as doing anything but relaxing—as being attacked, or agitating, or performing. The Black Rest Project aims to widen the lens.'
    The Visual Power of Black Rest
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    Global Black Studies at Duke
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    Jun 21, 2024
    Remembering the Howard University Librarian Who Decolonized the Way Books Were Catalogued | @SmithsonianMag Dorothy Porter challenged the racial bias in the Dewey Decimal System, putting black scholars alongside white colleagues
    Remembering the Howard University Librarian Who Decolonized the Way Books Were Catalogued
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    Global Black Studies at Duke
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    Feb 2, 2020
    "The Bluest Eye,” which was published fifty years ago, cut a new path through the American literary landscape by placing black girls at the center of the story."
    Toni Morrison’s Profound and Unrelenting Vision 
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    Global Black Studies at Duke
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    Aug 26, 2021
    'Frantz Fanon’s influence on Paulo Freire’s thought is well known, but the Brazilian educator also drew considerably from Amílcar Cabral, the revolutionary intellectual from Guinea-Bissau.' newframe.com/how-amilcar-ca…
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    Global Black Studies at Duke
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    Jul 1, 2022
    "Gilliam in 1972 was the first Black artist to exhibit in the US Pavilion of the Venice Biennale; despite this, & almost certainly because he was working in a field dominated by white men, he would have trouble for decades gaining the attention of critics"
    Sam Gilliam (1933–2022)
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    Global Black Studies at Duke
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    May 17, 2018
    "No single work by Baldwin is as connected to the issues animating Black Lives Matter as The Evidence of Things Not Seen, written long after Baldwin had lost the public’s affection and attention" -- @JoeVogel1 bostonreview.net/race/joseph-vo… via @BostonReview
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    Global Black Studies at Duke
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    Jun 18, 2023
    The Long War on Black Studies | Robin D. G. Kelley 'It would be a mistake to think of the current wave of attacks on “critical race theory” as a culture war. This is a political battle.'
    The Long War on Black Studies | Robin D. G. Kelley
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    Global Black Studies at Duke
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    Jun 20, 2025
    She Was the Greatest Author of Her Generation. She Should Be Remembered for More Than Just Her Writing. Toni Morrison was an editor for 12 years, even as she wrote her own masterpieces. I spoke to her authors about being edited by an icon
    She Was the Greatest Author of Her Generation. She Should Be Remembered for More Than Just Her...
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    Global Black Studies at Duke
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    Jun 1, 2024
    How Black lives became the hidden cost of clean energy 'Black activists in the U.S. are fighting the exploitation of Black resources and workers in the Congo' theemancipator.org/2024/05/29/env…
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    Global Black Studies at Duke
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    Oct 2, 2023
    Lorraine Hansberry’s Queer Archive 'The playwright’s lesbian fiction has gone largely unexamined. But she wanted you to read it.'
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    Alec Pollak: "Lorraine Hansberry's Queer Archive"
    The playwright’s lesbian fiction has gone largely unpublished. But she wanted you to read it.
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