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Black Mayors and the Battle Over Urban Leadership
In 1967, Richard Hatcher of Gary, Indiana, and Carl Stokes of Cleveland made history as two of the first Black ...

Dominican Crossroads: An Interview with Christina C. Davidson
In today's post, Kiana Knight, a PhD candidate in Africana Studies at Brown University, interviews interdisciplinary historian Christiana C. Davidson ...

Dorothy Height, NCNW, and the National Black Family Reunion
Dorothy I. Height and the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) organized the National Black Family Reunion beginning in 1986 ...

Announcing the AAIHS 2025 Award Winners
We are pleased to announce the 2025 AAIHS award winners—recipients of the Pauli Murray Book Prize, the Maria Stewart Journal ...