'Many Igbo societies had dual-sex political systems, with women holding authority over particular sectors.' daily.jstor.org/women-leaders-…

'We need to stop looking to Euro-America and its models and traditions, especially religion, as the source of all answers to the problems of the African continent and its people.'
africasacountry.com/2022/10/the-di…

'The White Citizens’ Councils used the transportation of Black Americans to Northern states as a way to embarrass liberal critics and rally segregationists.'
daily.jstor.org/the-reverse-fr…

'A national study suggests a link to this particular cancer among women who reported frequent use of the chemical products.'
nytimes.com/2022/10/17/hea…

The 2022 Macondo Literary Festival Brought Together 12 African Authors Writing on African Histories and Futures brittlepaper.com/2022/10/the-20…

Discussion | Becoming Frederick Douglass

Deborah Holt Noel, senior producer and host of PBS North Carolina's Black Issues Forum, leads a conversation about the life and legacy of Frederick Douglass with professors and scholars
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'Political tensions between Black joy and suffering can be acutely felt in controversies surrounding the preservation/restoration of Black spaces.'
aaihs.org/toward-the-pre… via Black Perspectives

'The Greensboro HBCU left its longtime sports conference in a quest to raise its profile, athletically and academically. Some alums wonder whether it’s lost part of its identity.'
theassemblync.com/culture/sports… via The Assembly

.Left of Black Presents: 'Small Talk' at Rofhiwa w/Maurice O. Wallace

Thursday, October 20, 2022 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Rofhiwa Book Café, 406 S Driver St,
Durham, NC 27703
fhi.duke.edu/events/left-bl…

I am honored to be featured by Docs In Progress 🎞️ for Caty Borum and Leena Jayaswal's new documentary 'MIXED' They interview me, students Duke University, and lots of mixed families and people about the #multiracial experience! Sign up for the free virtual event 10/24! eventbrite.com/e/silver-scree…

Kathryn Mathers of @ICSDuke writes about her new book - Popular Culture and White Saviorism: Imagined Africa as a Space for American Salvation - and how it addresses 'what Africa means to Americanness' at this particular moment in history. @RoutledgeBooks BlackStudies at Duke

''We are dissidents… Nyayo is sickening,' scream the lyrics of the song, which AB says is about 'generational trauma' and the need for Kenyans to speak about this history.' bbc.com/news/world-afr…

#StillDoingTheWork moyazb Victoria Kirby York (VKY) Black Women Radicals BlackStudies at Duke AAIHS Mount Holyoke Alums Black Women's Studies Association

'Abdulrazak Gurnah vividly captures colonial and post-colonial histories of abuse and dispossession, but also startling acts of reclamation and renewal.'
newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…

'The impressions imagined geographies leave are sticky, stubborn, and have violent material consequences on the lives of racial and ethnic 'Others'.' publicbooks.org/geography-fict… via @publicbooks

Meet Your Humanities Faculty at Duke University: Sarah Balakrishnan
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