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The Importance Of Black Love In Romance Novels, University Marketing And Communications, Julie Moody-Freeman
The Importance Of Black Love In Romance Novels, University Marketing And Communications, Julie Moody-Freeman
DePaul Download
For Julie Moody-Freeman, reading Black romance novels isn’t a guilty pleasure - it’s an area of study. Moody-Freeman is the director of DePaul's Center for Black Diaspora and a faculty member in the African and Black Diaspora Studies Department. On this episode, she discusses the history and importance of Black love in romance novels, which inspires her work as the host of The Black Romance Podcast. She also reflects on her conversations with Black romance writers, editors and scholars and the importance of their oral histories.
The Frederick Douglass Diary: A Transcription, Andrew Lang, Joshua Rio-Ross
The Frederick Douglass Diary: A Transcription, Andrew Lang, Joshua Rio-Ross
College of Science and Engineering Faculty Research and Scholarship
This document contains the transcribed text of The Frederick Douglass Diary, a 72-page handwritten diary kept by Frederick Douglass during his 1886-87 tour of Europe and Africa, with additional notes added in later years. The diary is part of the Frederick Douglass Papers available from the library of congress as scanned images. We present here the results of our use of Amazon's Mechanical Turk to transcribe the diary.