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‘Stoolpigeons’ and the Treacherous Terrain of Freedom Fighting

September 13, 2018September 16, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly Activism, Black radicalism

On May 15, 2018, Newsweek published a story entitled, “CIA Reveals Name of Former Spy in JFK Files—And He’s Still

The NFL and a History of Black Protest

September 12, 2018September 16, 2018 Louis Moore sports

In 1944, Black activist and sportswriter Halley Harding, argued that “most persons, corporations or business almost always forget the people or incidents

Pan-Africanism: A New Book on the History of a Global Movement

September 12, 2018September 16, 2018 Keisha N. Blain African Diaspora, black politics, Black Power, Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, Pan-Africanism, W.E.B. Du Bois

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

‘The Criminalization of Black Children’: A New Book on Chicago’s Juvenile System

September 11, 2018September 16, 2018 Melissa N. Shaw blackness, Chicago, criminal justice system, Gender, Migration, race

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

Online Roundtable: Keisha N. Blain’s ‘Set the World on Fire’

September 10, 2018October 18, 2018 AAIHS Editors Activism, black internationalism, black politics, Black women, black women's internationalism, Politics, Set the World on Fire

September 24-28, 2018 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of