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“History is Knowledge, Identity, and Power”: Lerone Bennett Jr., 1928–2018

February 15, 2018February 20, 2018 E. James West black intellectual history, Black Leaders

When I found out about Lerone Bennett, Jr’s passing, I was immediately struck by his sense of poetic timing. In life, Bennett

Online Forum: W. E. B. Du Bois @ 150

February 10, 2018February 18, 2018 AAIHS Editors #DuBoisForum, W.E.B. Du Bois

*February 19-23, 2018 Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on W. E. B. Du

The Complicated History of Race and Mardi Gras

February 9, 2018February 13, 2018 Trimiko Melancon Louisiana, New Orleans, race

Another carnival season is underway. In New Orleans it can be a time of eager anticipation during the historic, festive

Jumping the Broom and the American Cultural Divide

February 7, 2018February 11, 2018 Tyler Parry Marriage, slavery, South

Many people in the 21st century became familiar with jumping the broom through the 1977 miniseries Roots in a wedding scene

Chokwe Lumumba and Black Nationalist Convergence

February 6, 2018February 9, 2018 Dan Berger Activism, black nationalism, black politics, Black Power, black protest, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Politics

Eight months into his tenure as mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, Chokwe Lumumba passed away on February 25, 2014. The sixty-six-year-old mayor