Celebrating Two Years at AAIHS
Today we celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., a man of immeasurable courage and vision. We
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Thinking About the ‘X’
As the year winds down, I find myself, like my AAIHS colleague Noelle Trent, reflecting on 2015, on conversations that
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In his 2010 CD Sophomore Slump, the Jackson, Mississippi-based artist Skipp Coon rapped in the opening track “James,” “From where
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Last month, writer Zipporah Gene, of Nigerian descent, set off a firestorm when she accused African Americans of “culturally appropriating”
Read moreRemembering Marcy Borders (August 12, 1973-August 24, 2015)
Few images define the haunting terror of the September 11, 2001, attacks better than the picture of Marcy Borders. Borders,
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