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Revisiting the Poor People’s Campaign and Its Legacy

September 17, 2019September 16, 2019 Bobby Cervantes Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, black protest, Black radicalism, capitalism, civil rights, poor, poverty, Resistance, Social Movements

Universal health care, a public-job guarantee, and massive wealth redistribution are not just buzzwords in cable news interviews as myriad

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“The Most Important Place in the World”: On Puerto Rico and the Freedom Struggle

August 2, 2019July 28, 2019 Dan Berger Activism, African Diaspora, black politics, black protest, Caribbean, colonialism, freedom, Politics, Puerto Rican history, Puerto Rico, Social Movements

Though the United States has colonized Puerto Rico since 1898, when the country took the island as booty in the

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To Exist is to Resist: A New Book on Black Feminism in Europe

July 26, 2019July 15, 2019 Tiffany Florvil African Diaspora, Black Europe, black feminism, black politics, Black women, Resistance

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

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‘I Have a Copyright’: Interview with Daniel Fleming, Winner of the 2019 Maria Stewart Prize

July 24, 2019July 26, 2019 AAIHS Editors Activism, archives, black politics, black protest, Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr., race

This is an interview with Dr. Daniel Fleming, whose article “‘I Have a Copyright’: The Privatization of Martin Luther King’s

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Voices of Freedom Outside the South: An Oral History Resource

July 23, 2019July 15, 2019 Say Burgin archives, Black Panther Party, black politics, Black Power, Civil Rights Movement, education, oral history, race, teaching

Some of my most exciting moments as an educator have been seeing how students engage with oral histories from the

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