Rust Belt Resilience: The History of Buffalo’s Colored Musicians Club
When I first heard of the Buffalo mass shooting from my residence in California, I immediately reached out to my
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AAIHS Statement on the Buffalo Shooting
The African American Intellectual History Society condemns the vicious and brutal shooting that occurred on Saturday, May 14 in Buffalo,
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A Mortal Man’s Heart: Kendrick Lamar and Black Masculinity
We haven’t heard from Kendrick Lamar (as far as solo projects) since the 2017 Pulitzer Prize winning album DAMN. Kendrick
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Recovering the History of Black Showgirls in Las Vegas
Las Vegas has a long and glamorous entertainment history that evokes images of tuxedo clad crooners, female singers in elegant
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Betting on Black: Gambling and Gaming in the ‘Mississippi of the West’
In the famous 1954 Ebony article “Negroes can’t win in Las Vegas,” James Goodrich dubbed Sin City
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