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Winning Our Freedoms Together: A New Book on African Americans and South Africans

March 12, 2018March 15, 2018 Keisha N. Blain black internationalism, Resistance, South Africa

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

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Bringing W. E. B. Du Bois Home Again

February 23, 2018March 1, 2018 Whitney Battle-Baptiste #AAIHSRoundtable, #DuBoisForum, black intellectual history, black politics, black protest, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. The year 1968 was one of the most memorable

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Race, Religion and Radicalism: King and Du Bois

February 22, 2018March 1, 2018 Edward Carson #AAIHSRoundtable, #DuBoisForum, black intellectual history, black politics, black protest, Black radicalism, capitalism, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. On the occasion of a dual anniversary—the year we

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Luncheon in honor of the President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio, 1962. Photo: Abbie Rowe. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.

A Troubled Past: The United States and Africa since World War II

February 16, 2018February 20, 2018 Jessica Ann Levy africa, Anticolonialism, Donald Trump, imperialism, racism, Soviet Union

A few weeks ago, President Donald Trump sparked yet another international controversy with his reference to “sh**hole countries” to describe

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“History is Knowledge, Identity, and Power”: Lerone Bennett Jr., 1928–2018

February 15, 2018February 20, 2018 E. James West black intellectual history, Black Leaders

When I found out about Lerone Bennett, Jr’s passing, I was immediately struck by his sense of poetic timing. In life, Bennett

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