Radical Black Peace Activism in the Black Liberation Movement
On July 4, 1964, the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) wrote a letter to the Vietnamese Front of National Liberation congratulating
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Black Feminism
Black German Women and the Fifth Cross-Cultural Black Women’s Studies Summer Institute
When the opening session of the Fifth Cross-Cultural Black Women’s Studies Summer Institute began on August 2, 1991, in a
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Black Women’s Histories and the Power of Truth-Telling
Not long after Oprah Winfrey, the iconic media mogul and pioneer for African American women in film, television, and journalism,
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Teenage Feminism Decades before “Girl Power”
*This post is part of our online forum on Student Activism. As civil disobedience in schools escalated in the postwar era, teenage girls
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From Head Shops to Whole Foods: A New Book on Activist Entrepreneurs
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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