Online Forum–Black Civil War and Public Memory
April 24, 2022 to April 28, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting
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Reassessing African-European Encounters
Herman L. Bennett’s African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic, is a prelude to an
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AP African American Studies, CRT, and Redressing Institutional Racism
It is an undeniable fact that institutional racism plagues America. On February 7, 2023, at the State of the Union
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Howard Thurman and the Problem of Faithlessness
This post is part of our forum on Howard Thurman and the Civil Rights Movement. In 1949, Christian mystic and theologian Howard
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Howard Thurman: A Bridge Between Movements
This post is part of our forum on Howard Thurman and the Civil Rights Movement. In 1897, a group of scholars and
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