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The Legacy of Sandra Bland: An Interview with Poet Simone John

July 9, 2018July 12, 2018 Phillip Luke Sinitiere #SandraBlandForum, #sayhername, Black women, poetry, Sandra Bland

This post of part of our online forum on Sandra Bland, coinciding with the third anniversary of her death. The forum includes

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Stuart Hall: “Familiar Stranger” of the Black Atlantic

July 6, 2018July 9, 2018 Marlene Gaynair African Diaspora, Black Europe, Blacks in Britain, Caribbean, Jamaica

Stuart Hall’s posthumous memoir, Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands, is the most recent entry in his eponymous book

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Black Resistance to Segregation in the Nineteenth Century

July 5, 2018July 9, 2018 Jessica Parr Black women, law, New York, segregation

In 1852, the Third Avenue Railroad Company was founded. It ran between City Hall and 62nd Street in Manhattan. Its

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Adam McNeil

Adam McNeil is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at Rutgers University focusing on Black Women’s lives during

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Frederick Douglass on the Fourth of July

July 4, 2018July 6, 2018 AAIHS Editors Frederick Douglass, slavery

*The following post is an abridged version of Fredrick Douglass‘ famed speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?,”

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