Black History Month Free-to-Read Collection
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Free-to-read journal articles
“Sinners: White Violence, the Spirit(s), and the Purifying Fire of the Blues: A Conversation Between Ahmad Greene-Hayes and Ambre Dromgoole”
Ecumenica: Performance and Religion 18:2 (2025)
Ambre Dromgoole and Ahmad Greene-Hayes
“‘this is my space / I am not movin’: Responses to the Threat of Recolonization in the Poetic Activism of Langston Hughes and Ntozake Shange”
The Langston Hughes Review 28: 1 (2022)
Christopher Allen Varlack
“Joining Black and White Hands in the Cause of Justice in America: Two (Unpublished) Letters between Arthur Miller, Langston Hughes, and Eugene O’Neill”
The Arthur Miller Journal 20:1 (2025)
Rupendra Guha-Majumdar
“‘Alarming Symptoms’: Thomas Dixon’s The Leopard’s Spots and the Use of Antihistory in Systemic Voter Suppression”
Nineteenth Century Studies 37 (2025)
Paul D. Yandle
“Revisiting Georgetown Nursing School History, 1903–1969: Racialized Exclusion, Barriers, and Othering”
Nursing History Review 34 (2026)
William A. Cessato and Edilma L. Yearwood
“Blackness and Belonging: Shirley Graham’s ‘Negro Adaptation” of The Hairy Ape”
The Eugene O’Neill Review 44:1 (2023)
Patrick Chura
Open-access books
Blackbird
How Black Musicians Sang the Beatles into Being—and Sang Back to Them Ever After
Katie Kapurch and Jon Marc Smith, with foreword by Cyrus Cassells
The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson
Blues, Race, Identity
Julia Simon
Debt and Redemption in the Blues
The Call for Justice
Julia Simon
Cervantine Blackness
Nicholas R. Jones
Struggle for the City
Citizenship and Resistance in the Black Freedom Movement
Derek G. Handley
Sorcery or Science?
Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts
Ariela Marcus-Sells
Banning Black Gods
Law and Religions of the African Diaspora
Danielle N. Boaz
African American Artists and the New Deal Art Programs
Opportunity, Access, and Community
Mary Ann Calo, and Epilogue by Jacqueline Francis
Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas
Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition
Edited by Cécile Fromont
Temperance and Cosmopolitanism
African American Reformers in the Atlantic World
Carole Lynn Stewart
Memorializing the Unsung
Slaves of the Church and the Making of Kongo Catholicism
Elochukwu Uzukwu, C.S.Sp.
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