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How Black Women Steered National Politics Through Local Activism in Washington, DC

October 3, 2019October 8, 2019 Rebecca Brenner Graham Activism, black politics, black protest, Black women, civil rights, Politics, Washington DC

Many histories of America’s capital city have explored the personal networks of political figures. They have revealed the sociopolitical influence

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‘Rhodes Must Fall’ and Decolonizing Education

October 1, 2019September 22, 2019 Nicholas Grant Activism, African Diaspora, Anticolonialism, Black Europe, black protest, decolonization, education, empire, race, reparations

Writing in 2006, the historian Manning Marable asserted that, “The Black public intellectual must actively engage the past in such

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Black Freethinkers: A New History of African American Secularism

September 27, 2019September 20, 2019 J. T. Roane Black Freethought, black intellectual history, religion

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Revisiting the Talented Tenth: On Black Ivy League Activism

September 12, 2019September 16, 2019 Zebulon Vance Miletsky #AAIHSRoundtable, #UpendingTheIvoryTower, Activism, Black Power, black protest, education, race, Resistance

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Stefan M. Bradley’s Upending the Ivory

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Elite Activism: Survival and Resistance in the Ivies

September 11, 2019September 16, 2019 Shirletta Kinchen #AAIHSRoundtable, #UpendingTheIvoryTower, Activism, black politics, Black Power, education, race, W.E.B. Du Bois, white supremacy

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Stefan M. Bradley’s Upending the Ivory

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