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National Freedom Day Kicks Off Black History Month

January 18, 2024January 16, 2024 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. black intellectual history, black radical tradition, freedom

In the United States, there is a history of African American holidays, festivals, and celebrations. Scholars such as William H. Wiggins, Jr., Angela

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Convict Leasing in the Family

January 17, 2024January 16, 2024 Menika Dirkson carceral state, mass incarceration, racism, South

Around 1920, twenty-four-year-old E. Hooper left her rural hometown of Chester, South Carolina for the big city where she could

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What is “Freedom” in the Black Freedom Struggle?

January 11, 2024January 5, 2024 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. Activism, black protest, black radical tradition

Freedom is at the center of the Black freedom struggle. The Strange Career of Jim Crow, The Strange Careers of the Jim

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The Best Black History Books of 2023

December 11, 2023December 7, 2023 AAIHS Editors aaihs

We asked editors and bloggers of Black Perspectives to select the best books published in 2023 on Black History, and they

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Black Administrative Politics and the Question of the US State

November 21, 2023December 1, 2023 Frances O'Shaughnessy Politics, race, reconstruction, Resistance

In his book Administering Freedom, labor organizer and historian Dale Kretz asks how formerly enslaved Black people made freedom meaningful through

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