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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

Mississippi’s Civil Rights Museum: Reflections from a Native Daughter

February 14, 2018February 16, 2018 Tiyi Morris Activism, black protest, Black women, civil rights, Donald Trump, racism

Several weeks ago, I attended the opening activities for the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson. The museum represents a long-overdue,

Radical Black Peace Activism in the Black Liberation Movement

February 12, 2018February 16, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly Anticolonialism, colonialism, imperialism, Soviet Union, Third World Women’s Alliance

On July 4, 1964, the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) wrote a letter to the Vietnamese Front of National Liberation congratulating

Online Forum: W. E. B. Du Bois @ 150

February 10, 2018February 18, 2018 AAIHS Editors #DuBoisForum, W.E.B. Du Bois

*February 19-23, 2018 Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on W. E. B. Du

The History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital

February 10, 2018February 13, 2018 Rebecca Brenner Graham black politics, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, race, Washington DC

2018 marks the fiftieth anniversary of a crucial moment for Washington, D.C. On April 4, 1968, following news of Dr.