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Racism as Theory: A Historiography of White Supremacy Ideology

April 1, 2022April 1, 2022 Bala James Baptiste Historiography, ideology, oppression, race, racism, white supremacy

This historiography theorizes racism as applicable to an explanation of why decision-makers at major white organizations waited until the late

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La Afrovenezolanidad: A Historiography of the Black Experience in Venezuela

March 30, 2022March 29, 2022 Menika Dirkson Afro-Venezuelan, Historiography, slavery, South America, Venezuela

During the month of May, Venezuelans celebrate Afro-Descendant Month in honor of the social, political, economic, and cultural contributions Afro-Venezuelans

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Malcolm X’s Gospel

March 28, 2022March 27, 2022 Ellen McLarney black intellectual history, black nationalism

In April 1957, Malcolm X began writing his “God’s Angry Men” column in the New York Amsterdam News, immediately after the brutal police

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Northern Black People’s Freedom Struggle in the Nineteenth Century

March 21, 2022March 20, 2022 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. black lives matter, black protest, Resistance

During the mid-nineteenth-century, Black people collectively fought for racial equality and social justice within the U.S. The scholarship of historians,

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The Fight for Black Freedom Transcends National Borders

March 17, 2022March 16, 2022 Shaun Armstead Dorthy Height, Marcus Garvey, Mary McLeod Bethune, National Council of Negro Women, UNIA

This article first appeared in Made By History. The original can be accessed here. In a recent news conference, Senate Minority Leader

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