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‘Birthright Citizens’: A New Book on the History of Race and Rights

August 20, 2018August 27, 2018 Melissa N. Shaw Civil War, law, slavery

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

More Than a Song: Giving Aretha a Little R-E-S-P-E-C-T

August 16, 2018August 27, 2018 Crystal R. Sanders Memphis, music, social justice

No matter whether one came of age in the sixties, the seventies, the eighties, or even the nineties, Aretha Franklin

Student Activism and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle

August 15, 2018August 27, 2018 Jon Hale civil rights, criminal justice system, law, racism, segregation, South, student activism

*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by historian Jon Hale as

How Gentrification and Displacement are Remaking Boston

August 9, 2018August 16, 2018 Zebulon Miletsky and Tomas Gonzalez Boston, gentrification, segregation

*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by Zebulon Miletsky and

Online Forum: The Life and Legacy of Dr. James H. Cone

August 8, 2018September 4, 2018 AAIHS Editors James Cone Forum, religion, spirituality

September 3-7, 2018 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a week-long online