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View ArticleRendezvous with Freedom
“Change for a $20” read news blurbs on Wednesday, with the announcement that Harriet Tubman will appear on U.S. currency.
View Article“We Need Your Freedom”: An Interview with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
This week, I had the pleasure of interviewing Alexis Pauline Gumbs on her new book Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
View ArticleChristmas and Resistance to Slavery in the Americas
It was a humid Christmas day in 1820 when twenty-five-year-old Santiago Martínez presented himself before the army commander stationed in
View ArticlePictorial Manifestations: On a Younger Harriet Tubman
Few may remember the rather juvenile comments objecting to the announcement on April 20, 2016 by the Department of the
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Nat Turner became an impromptu topic of discussion in my third grade classroom. Ms. Todman had a way of getting
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