Black Workers and Consumers in the Long Civil Rights Movement
As Amazon expanded from an online retail corporation into a transnational logistics operation with retail, content/entertainment, shipping, data and web
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‘Rhodes Must Fall’ and Decolonizing Education
Writing in 2006, the historian Manning Marable asserted that, “The Black public intellectual must actively engage the past in such
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Online Forum: Milestone Media Comics
October 7–11, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum exploring the Black-owned
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Jargon for the Blacks—and Others
Time and again, usually a few times a year, I haphazardly stumble upon someone castigating the use of “jargon,” at
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Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics: An Interview with Benjamin Talton
In today’s post, AAIHS President Keisha N. Blain interviews Benjamin Talton, an associate professor of History at Temple University, about his
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