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On the Tragic Death of Tyre Nichols

January 30, 2023January 30, 2023 Hettie Williams black lives matter, police violence

Don’t Cry Don’t shed a tear The time I shared with you will always be And when I’m gone,

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CFP: Howard Thurman’s Spiritual and Intellectual Contributions to the Civil Rights Movement

January 27, 2023January 23, 2023 AAIHS Editors CFP, Civil Rights Movement, Howard Thurman, Mysticism, Online Forum, religion

Gregory Ellison’s recently published edited volume on Howard Thurman explores the varied roles that the theologian, mystic, professor, and preacher

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Kinship and Intimacy in Black Women’s Atlantic World

January 26, 2023January 23, 2023 Chinaza Ruth Okonkwo africa, book review, Kinship, slavery, Wicked Flesh, Women

Even as more scholars of color engage with the livelihoods of those not rich, white, or male, the way Black

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Louis Congo: Ex-Slave and Executioner of Louisiana

January 25, 2023January 23, 2023 Menika Dirkson Early Republic, Louis Congo, Louisiana, Punishmnet, slavery

On November 21, 1725, African slave Louis Congo was freed and made a salaried public executioner in Louisiana by the

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George Jackson in a Global Frame

January 24, 2023January 25, 2023 Andrew Anastasi black intellectual history, Black Power

Fifty years ago, George Lester Jackson’s Blood in My Eye dropped like a bomb, but the author did not live to hear

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