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The Problem with Baltimore

March 22, 2024March 21, 2024 Anthony Smooth police brutality, racism, slavery, urban history

In 2015, Harvard economists Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren did a study on how the socioeconomic conditions of the neighborhoods

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A Black Woman’s Story of Sacrifice and Survival

March 21, 2024March 21, 2024 Alexis Cathcart abolition, Black women

On January 4, 1861−one week before Alabama officially seceded from the Union−a 65-year-old freed Black woman named Sally Johnson, petitioned

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The Dichotomy of Enslaved Women’s Work in the Antebellum South

March 20, 2024March 12, 2024 O.G. McClinton, III #BooksArchivesMonuments, Black History

This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.” The work of enslaved

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Online Forum–The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me

March 18, 2024March 15, 2024 AAIHS Editors #BooksArchivesMonuments, Black History, books, forum

March 19, 2024 to March 28, 2024  Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS),

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2024 Finalists for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History

February 26, 2024February 25, 2024 AAIHS Editors #BookPrize

The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is pleased to announce the finalists for the seventh annual Pauli Murray Book

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