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Tracing the Pan-African Foundations of Transnational Black Feminism

November 28, 2022November 25, 2022 Ashley Everson black feminism, Black women, Gender, Pan-Africanism

Following her deportation from New York to London, England, Black communist Claudia Jones expanded the scope of her leftist, anti-imperial

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Tulsa and the Open Question of Justice, 1921–2021

June 8, 2021June 7, 2021 Kwasi Konadu social justice, Tulsa, violence

This week marks the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa race riots, a massacre orchestrated by a white mob against

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Sport as a Place of Violence in the Tulsa Race Massacre

June 7, 2021June 6, 2021 J. Paul sports, trauma, Tulsa

On Tuesday May 31, 1921, the Oklahoma City Indians baseball team took to the field against the Tulsa Oilers for

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The Black Republic: A New Book about African Americans and Haiti

January 31, 2020January 30, 2020 AAIHS Editors African Diaspora, black intellectual history, black politics, Black radicalism, Haiti, Pan-Africanism, Resistance, W.E.B. Du Bois

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Radical Blackness and Mutual Comradeship at 409 Edgecombe

July 16, 2019July 7, 2019 Charisse Burden-Stelly Activism, Black Marxism, black politics, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Black women, Communism, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, New York, race

In the first half of the twentieth century, Sugar Hill was the premier Black neighborhood in New York City that

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