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Professor Tina Campt, Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Director of the Africana Studies Program, Barnard College, New York, engages three innovative conceptual frameworks for theorizing diasporic formation that depart from traditional emphasis on mobility, resistance and expressiveness as primary idioms of black culture.

J. Lorand Matory explores the re-articulation of ethnic boundaries and cultural diacritica by which African and Caribbean immigrants to the United States, as well as Louisiana Creoles of color and Native American populations of partly African descent, endeavor to distinguish themselves from a supposedly more prototypical black American, with the intent to establish their worthiness of the American dream.

Celebrated African-American novelist Walter Mosley returns to Chicago with another edition of his Easy Rawlins detective series and a new play at Congo Square Theatre. 

Fifty years after the civil rights era, and almost 150 years after slavery, the vast majority of the images we see in film and on television are still of white Americans.

Defense attorneys for former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich say they're concerned there won't be many people of color on the jury.  The holdout juror in Blagojevich's first trial was African American.

Almost half of African-American mothers in Illinois never breastfeed their newborns, according to a report by state and university researchers and a nonprofit group called HealthConnect One.

One of the founders of the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago is being remembered fondly today.Margaret Burroughs died at her Chicago home yesterday at the age of 93.