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The Black Family, Landownership, and Tobacco Culture

November 14, 2022November 12, 2022 Kiana Knight #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackFamily, Jim Crow, race, South

This post is part of our forum on “The Significance of the Black Family in the US.” In a country

Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez and the African American Community of New Orleans during the Civil War

October 19, 2022October 13, 2022 Anthony J. Cade II abolition, Civil War, Louis Charles Roundanez, Newspapers, slavery

Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez lived an extraordinary life. He traveled the world, earned two medical degrees, started two newspapers, and was an activist during

The Lexicon Origins of People of Color

September 27, 2022September 25, 2022 Warren Milteer, Jr. black intellectual history, race

The term “people of color” is in a strange place in its evolution as part of the American lexicon. The

Lorraine Hansberry’s Radicalism: An Interview with Soyica Diggs Colbert

September 5, 2022September 5, 2022 Julius B. Fleming, Jr. #AAIHSRoundtable, #RadicalVision, black intellectual history, Gender

This post is part of our online roundtable on Soyica Diggs Colbert’s Radical Vision In today’s post, Black Perspectives interviews Dr.

The Long Debate Over Critical Race Theory

August 12, 2022August 2, 2022 Lisa A. Monroe black intellectual history, education, race

“Just what is critical race theory and what’s it doing in a nice field like education?” is a question on