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W.E.B. Du Bois, Haiti, and US Imperialism

January 28, 2020January 26, 2020 Crystal Eddins Activism, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, imperialism, slavery, Social Movements, W.E.B. Du Bois

This piece follows up on the January 2019 post “Haitian and French Petrol Protests in the Age of Climate Change.”

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Contemplating the Black Atlantic

January 27, 2020January 26, 2020 Celeste Henery African Diaspora, environment, environmentalism, Historical Memory

If transatlantic slavery remains one of the foundational premises of a Black or African Diaspora, then the great ocean—the Atlantic—holds

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Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: A New Book About Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life

January 24, 2020January 24, 2020 AAIHS Editors Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, Jim Crow, New Negro, Resistance, Washington DC, youth

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

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Rosa Parks on Police Brutality: The Speech We Never Heard

January 23, 2020January 23, 2020 Say Burgin Activism, black politics, black protest, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, police brutality, police violence

In 1965, Rosa Parks would have had a lot to say about police brutality. By then, she had left Alabama

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On Sociality

January 22, 2020January 19, 2020 Marquis Bey #OnSuite, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, Gender, LGBT, sexuality, trans identity

*This post is part of contributor Marquis Bey’s On Suite series. Sociality, n. The state or quality of being sociable; (the enjoyment

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