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The Department of Africana,Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Hunter College, CUNY. https://xitter.cf/t.co/227w9NUUsj

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‘Shakespeare was a Black woman’: the playwright’s under-recognized connection to Black culture: A new Washington DC exhibition examines how Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and more used the Bard’s work to help tell their own stories theguardian.com/artanddesign…

‘Shakespeare was a Black woman’: the playwright’s under-recognized connection to Black culture

A new Washington DC exhibition examines how Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and more used the Bard’s work to help tell their own stories

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The Unique History Of Afro-Latinos In America — Why It’s Much More Complicated Than ‘I No Black’ madamenoire.com/1690582/afro…

The Unique History Of Afro-Latinos In America — Why It's Much More Complicated Than 'I No Black'

Afro-Latinos have a rich and complex history in America, shaped by their diverse African and Latin American roots.

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Join us for the Sawyer Seminars, convened by WashU's Department of African & African American Studies and the Center for the Humanities! Register here: eventbrite.com/cc/sawyer-sem…
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Trafficked on the last US slave ship, Cudjo Lewis never returned home to Benin. But his descendant has theguardian.com/culture/ng-i…

Trafficked on the last US slave ship, Cudjo Lewis never returned home to Benin. But his descendant...

Cassandra Lewis’s Benin citizenship reflects a broader push by African countries to reconnect with diaspora descendants

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Rest in Power Dr. Locksley Edmondson longstanding professor and former director of the Africana Research Center at Cornell University. A pioneering political scientist of the African diaspora, beloved mentor and activist.
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Johanna Fernández, Young Lords historian, makes her transition amsterdamnews.com/news/2026/…

Johanna Fernández, Young Lords historian and prison abolitionist, makes her transition

Dr. Johanna Fernández, the Dominican American historian, prison abolitionist, and movement scholar, died on July 30.

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Denise Oliver-Vélez, Pioneering Young Lord & Black Panther, Dies at 78 | Democracy Now! democracynow.org/2026/7/17/d…

Denise Oliver-Vélez, Pioneering Young Lord & Black Panther, Dies at 78

Lifelong activist, organizer and educator Denise Oliver-Vélez has died at the age of 78. She was a central figure in the civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s and was the first woman elected...

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Sonny Rollins, colossus of jazz saxophone, dies aged 95 | theguardian.com/music/2026/m…

Sonny Rollins, colossus of jazz saxophone, dies aged 95

One of the last stars of the bebop generation, Rollins was a genius of melodic invention and improvisation, working with Davis, Monk, Coltrane and others

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‘I saw the backlash coming’: civil rights activist Kimberlé Crenshaw on America and race | Books | The Guardian theguardian.com/books/2026/a…

‘I saw the backlash coming’: civil rights activist Kimberlé Crenshaw on America and race

She coined the term ‘intersectionality’ and helped to develop critical race theory, now her life’s work is under attack by Washington’s war on ‘woke’. As her memoir is published, the legal scholar...

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Ohio’s public universities are eliminating nearly 90 degree programs as a result of Senate Bill 1 10tv.com/article/news/local/…

Ohio’s public universities are eliminating nearly 90 degree programs as a result of Senate Bill 1

Ohio colleges and universities are required to cut any undergrad degree programs that produce on average less than five degrees annually over a three-year period.

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Dr. Jillian Báez in conversation with Dr. Juan Piñón about her pathbreaking new book.
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Tilden J. LeMelle, Former Hunter College Acting President Passes| Hunter College hunter.cuny.edu/news/tilden-…
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American Voices — An Evening with Julia Alvarez | Hunter College hunter.cuny.edu/event/americ…

American Voices — An Evening with Julia Alvarez | Hunter College

American Voices Presents: An Evening with Julia Alvarez A talk with novelist Julia Alvarez, moderated by author Rigoberto González.

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April 2nd - Poetics of the Meantime: Black Feminist Ecologies docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…

April 2nd - Poetics of the Meantime: Black Feminist Ecologies

Presented by the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender at Columbia University. Poetics of the Meantime: Black Feminist Ecologies A conversation with Sarah Haley, Saidiya Hartman, Tiffany...

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@Passionweiss “If Not For Donald Trump, Sinners Would Have Won More Oscars” is new NEWSWEEK opinion piece from Kevin Powell: newsweek.com/if-not-for-dona…

If not for Donald Trump, Sinners would have won more Oscars | Opinion

Hollywood has always had a hard time acknowledging Black films by Black creatives that present us as the whole humans we are.

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Women's History Month 2026 at the Center for Black Literature: conta.cc/4rdCbo3

Women's History Month 2026 at the Center for Black Literature

Email from Center for Black Literature   Share This Email Share This Email Share This Email   Welcome to March and Women's History Month at the Center for Black Literature! On March 12, 2026, 6:00 pm

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Salsa giant Willie Colón passed away this morning. According to a statement released on his official Facebook page, he died peacefully, surrounded by his loved ones May he Rest In Peace 🕊️
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Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader, dies aged 84 A trailblazer in the civil rights movement and Democratic politics, Jackson championed the rights of Black, poor and working-class people with his ‘rainbow coalition’ theguardian.com/us-news/2026…

Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader, dies aged 84

A trailblazing figure in the civil rights movement and Democratic politics, Jackson championed the rights of Black, poor and working-class people with his ‘rainbow coalition’

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The brilliant scholar-activist #NicoleFleetwood keynote lecture “ ‘We have the Receipts': Black Documentary and Archival Traditions and the Refusal of Erasure."@hunter_college @#BlackHistory100
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