Call for Submissions: The Centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre
Editor: Robert Greene II, Ph.D. Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), invites blog
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Activism
Louise Thompson and the Black and White Film
In 1932, James Ford returned from the Soviet Union with a letter from the Russian film company Meschrabpom saying it
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The University of Chicago, Urban Renewal, and the Black Community
“It is not possible to operate and maintain a great university in a deteriorating or slum neighborhood,” proclaimed University of
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The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS
The devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic over the past year has intensified scrutiny of racial health inequities in the
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Working with Histories that Haunt Us
When I first began to conceptualize my dissertation project, I knew I wanted to write about an iconic group of
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