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The African American Origins of Modern Asylum

March 9, 2022March 8, 2022 Sean Gallagher asylum, Canada, Diplomacy, escape, Haiti, Mexico

Harriet Tubman, living in Ontario, Canada for most of 1851 to 1861, told an abolitionist interviewing fugitive slaves north of

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2022 Finalists for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History

March 7, 2022March 6, 2022 AAIHS Editors #AAIHS2022, #AAIHSConference, #BookPrize, black intellectual history, black protest, literature

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

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State v. Mann: Lydia’s Journey

February 23, 2022February 22, 2022 Sally Greene Black women, Freedom Suits, law, North Carolina, slavery

Naturally, we don’t know her full name. That we know her at all is only because of a gun aimed

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Tuskegee’s Civilizing Mission

February 21, 2022February 20, 2022 Kenneth Smith black internationalism, Pan-Africanism

From his academic career at the Hampton Institute (1872-1875) in Virginia until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington preached

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Deciphering the Ancestral Common Ground of Black Religion

February 17, 2022February 16, 2022 James Padilioni Jr #PewResearchForum, Black church, Black Religion, Islam, Prayer, Vodoo

*This post is part of our online forum with the Pew Research Center. Pew Research Center headlines herald, “generational patterns are changing,”

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