‘Birthright Citizens’: A New Book on the History of Race and Rights
*This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Black Political Thought
How Gentrification and Displacement are Remaking Boston
*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by Zebulon Miletsky and
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Online Forum: The Life and Legacy of Dr. James H. Cone
September 3-7, 2018 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a week-long online
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‘Footprints of Panafricanism’: An Interview with Filmmaker Shirikiana Aina
In today’s post, poet, playwright and novelist Nubia Kai interviews Shirikiana Aina about her new film, Footprints of Panafricanism. An independent filmmaker,
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50 Years Since Detroit’s Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
On July 8, 1968, a group of Black autoworkers led a wildcat strike that partially shut down Chrysler Corporation’s Dodge
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