Ramp Your Voice: An Interview with Vilissa Thompson
This month I interviewed Vilissa Thompson about her work as the founder and CEO of Ramp Your Voice!, an organization that promotes
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Activism
The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio
This is an excerpt from the fourth chapter of Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on
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“Held in Trust by History:” The Intellectual Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr.
On the morning of December 11, 2016, a notice in the Chicago area news read as follows: “Author Lerone Bennett
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From Concentration Camps to the Senate: Black Women in the French Resistance
The role that over a million African soldiers played in World War II has garnered interest in recent years. Calls for countries
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#AAIHS2017: Expanding the Boundaries of Black Intellectual History
The past year has certainly been an exciting one for the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS). In the months
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