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A Black Environmental History of Palms

November 7, 2023November 9, 2023 Jayson Maurice Porter #BlackFamilyTree, Brazil, Columbia, Environmental History, Latin America

Read this essay’s Portuguese translation here. [A brief palm reading of Landscapes of Freedom by Claudia Leal (2018), Raspando Coco

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Black Los Angeles Contributes to the Freedom Rides

November 6, 2023November 1, 2023 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. Activism, Civil Rights Movement, racism, Resistance

In the summer of 1961, Black people from Los Angeles and their allies volunteered to travel south and take part

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Online Forum-Womanist Theology: A Black Woman’s Intellectual Movement

November 3, 2023November 9, 2023 AAIHS Editors #WomanistTheology, Black women, religion, Womanism, Womanist Theology

November 10, 2023 to November 20, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS),

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The Legal History of Travel Discrimination

November 2, 2023October 29, 2023 Rebecca Dudley book review, civil rights, Jim Crow, racism, Resistance

Many of us take for granted the ease of our particular American-style mobility. We can go wherever we want to,

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John Potts and Radical Student Activism

November 1, 2023October 24, 2023 Candace Cunningham black intellectual history, education, HBCU history, Higher education, Resistance, teaching

Black educator Dr. John Foster Potts may be a largely unknown figure today, but in Jim Crow-era South Carolina he

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