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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new book Dream Count explores love in all its complicated messiness

by lisadtinsley March 24, 2025

What’s the story about? Dream Count tells the intersecting stories of four African women. The novel recounts the characters’ hopes, dreams and struggles, interweaving flashbacks from their childhood and earlier …

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Six books that explain the history and meaning of Juneteenth

by lisadtinsley June 12, 2023

Corey D. B. Walker – Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, Wake Forest University After decades of being celebrated at mostly the local level, Juneteenth – the long-standing holiday that …

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June 12, 2023 0 comments 1.5K views
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African-American Music Appreciation Month: Five essential reads

by lisadtinsley June 1, 2022

Nick Lehr – Arts + Culture Editor To commemorate African-American Music Appreciation Month this June, Vice-President Kamala Harris released a Spotify playlist with songs spanning genres and generations, from TLC’s “Waterfalls” …

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June 1, 2022 0 comments 997 views
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Jackie Robinson was a radical – don’t listen to the sanitized version of history

by lisadtinsley May 8, 2022

Peter Dreier – E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics, Occidental College In our new book, “Baseball Rebels: The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed …

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May 8, 2022 0 comments 937 views
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How Black writers and journalists have wielded punctuation in their activism

by lisadtinsley August 25, 2021

Written by Eurie Dahn – Associate Professor of English, The College of Saint Rose Using punctuation and capitalization as a form of protest doesn’t exactly scream radicalism. But in debates …

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August 25, 2021 0 comments 981 views
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Four Haitian novels that beautifully blend history, memory and reality

by lisadtinsley August 14, 2021

Marlene Daut – Professor of African Diaspora Studies, University of Virginia Following the July 7, 2021 assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse and after one Haitian official requested that the …

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