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On Public Art, Historical Memory, and Racial Violence

June 2, 2021June 1, 2021 Melanie Chambliss Activism, art, education, race, Resistance

In 1919, two dozen race riots broke out across the United States, and the collective racial terror traumatized Black communities.

The Reconstruction Origins of Black Wall Street

June 1, 2021May 30, 2021 Alexandra E. Stern archives, black protest, race, Resistance, Tulsa

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre targeted and destroyed the city’s prosperous Greenwood District, home to a vibrant economy of Black-owned businesses that

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: Healing Historical Racial Trauma

May 31, 2021May 30, 2021 Hannibal B. Johnson black protest, race, Racial Violence, Resistance, white supremacy

The centennial of a defining, defiling moment in Tulsa history, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre (“Tulsa Massacre”), May 31 –

British Racial Violence and Transatlantic Black Activism

May 6, 2021June 5, 2021 E. James West Activism, African Diaspora, black protest, police violence, Racial Violence

February of this year marked the thirtieth anniversary of the killing of Rolan Adams, a Black British teenager who was

Call for Submissions: The Centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre

April 23, 2021April 22, 2021 AAIHS Editors

Editor: Robert Greene II, Ph.D. Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), invites blog