Call for Submissions: The Centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre
Editor: Robert Greene II, Ph.D. Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), invites blog
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Race
Black Lesbian Thought: An Interview with Briona Simone Jones
In today’s post, Emerald Rutledge, an associate editor of Black Perspectives, interviews Briona Simone Jones on her new edited collection, Mouths of
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Louise Thompson and the Black and White Film
In 1932, James Ford returned from the Soviet Union with a letter from the Russian film company Meschrabpom saying it
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The University of Chicago, Urban Renewal, and the Black Community
“It is not possible to operate and maintain a great university in a deteriorating or slum neighborhood,” proclaimed University of
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Black Soldiers and the Civil War
Shortly after the Emancipation Proclamation enabled African American men to enlist in the Union army in 1863, Alexander Thomas Augusta
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