Online Forum: Frederick Douglass @ 200
November 26-30, 2018 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on Frederick Douglass on
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Race
‘The Untold Story of Marcus Garvey’: Interview with Filmmaker Roy T. Anderson
In today’s post, Christopher Shell, PhD Student in History at Michigan State University, interviews filmmaker Roy T. Anderson about his forthcoming
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Making Race in British Colonial North America
When confronted with three eighteenth-century newspaper advertisements seeking a missing man from Connecticut named Ishmael Mux of “a white Complexion,”
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Black Fists, Black Pride, and the 1968 Summer Olympics
Black fists. Black men. Black pride. That’s how we will always remember bronze medalist John Carlos and gold medalist Tommie
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The Life and Legacy of Political Scientist Hanes Walton, Jr.
In 1970, Vincent Harding contributed an essay to the inaugural issue of the Journal of Black Studies titled “Black Students
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