The Problem of White-Washing Juneteenth
Juneteenth’s increasing popularity places long-time celebrants in an unenviable position where euphoria regarding Jubilee’s popularity is tempered by the threat
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Black history
Online Roundtable: Quito Swan’s ‘Pauulu’s Diaspora’
June 28th-July 2nd, 2021 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of
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Postal Work and the Struggle for Black Freedom
In late 1892, a railroad operator approached activist-journalist Ida B. Wells to inquire why the Black community of Memphis, Tennessee, had been
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The Historical Roots of Abolition in the Twenty-First Century
In June 2020 Mariame Kaba penned an opinion piece in the New York Times entitled, “Yes We Literally Mean Abolish
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A More Radical Vision for Palestinian Self-determination
Nearly fifty years ago, at the 1972 National Black Political Convention (NBPC) in Gary, Indiana, Douglas E. Moore of the
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