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Tracing Early Black Intellectual Networks

February 22, 2016February 21, 2016 Jared Hardesty black intellectual history, black politics, Caribbean, slavery

In my continuing series on early African American intellectual life, today I want to examine early black intellectual networks by

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Visualizing Music: Representing Black Culture, Community, and Politics

February 16, 2016February 16, 2016 Janell Hobson #BlackLivesMatter

Figure 1 As Jessica Marie Johnson has already documented here on AAIHS, black women utilized Beyoncé’s song, video, and performance

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Thinking About Grenada Through Iran

February 15, 2016February 15, 2016 Greg Childs Caribbean, Grenada

It has been more than three decades now since the Grenada revolution of 1979-1983, more than three decades since names

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How the alliance between slaves and abolitionists ended slavery

December 21, 2015December 19, 2015 Patrick Rael 13th Amendment, William Lloyd Garrison

One hundred fifty years ago this December, the U.S. completed its long process of abolishing slavery. Why did the nation

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Conclusion: Roundtable on The Age of Garvey by Adam Ewing

November 30, 2015December 30, 2016 Guest Poster #AAIHSRoundtable, #AgeofGarvey, Garveyism, Marcus Garvey, Universal Negro Improvement Association

This is the final day of our roundtable on Adam Ewing’s book, The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist

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