Online Forum: A History of Student Activism
January 8–12, 2018 A line of African American students walking through a crowd of white boys in Clinton, TN, during
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Gender
Black Gay History and the Fight Against AIDS
During the 1980s and 1990s, African American AIDS activists used Black gay history as a tool in the fight against AIDS.
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Portraits of Black Womanhood
When I first encountered Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait d’une Negresse at the Louvre, I had just researched and encountered the remains of
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The Man-Not: A New Book on the Dilemmas of Black Manhood
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
This is an excerpt from Keisha N. Blain’s Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle
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