Online Forum: The Life and Legacy of Dr. James H. Cone
September 3-7, 2018 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a week-long online
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Meaning of freedom
Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Barracoon’ and Africatown’s Sister Settlement
More than ninety years after Zora Neale Hurston first met Cudjo Lewis, her manuscript Barracoon has finally been published. Hurston encountered
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Black Resistance to Segregation in the Nineteenth Century
In 1852, the Third Avenue Railroad Company was founded. It ran between City Hall and 62nd Street in Manhattan. Its
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Could the Windrush Scandal Happen in France?
The Windrush crisis continues to have grave implications for the British citizens of Caribbean descent denied their rights to housing,
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Haitian Writer Baron de Vastey and Black Atlantic Humanism: An Interview with Marlene L. Daut
In today’s post, Julia Gaffield, Assistant Professor of History at Georgia State University, interviews Marlene L. Daut on her new book Baron
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