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Death, Grieving, and the Necessity of History

June 17, 2019June 9, 2019 Sasha Turner Black Death Ideology, Black women, Caribbean, mourning

“You have been complaining at lot about being cold these days.” My dear friend, Deirdre Cooper Owens (Dee-Dee) said to

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Reflections on African American Intellectual History

June 13, 2019June 9, 2019 Pero G. Dagbovie #AAIHSRoundtable, #RethinkingAAIH, black intellectual history, black politics, Black women, black women scholars, education, race

*This post is part of our online forum titled “What is African American Intellectual History?“ In the mid-1970s when the

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The Collectivist Roots of Madam C. J. Walker’s Philanthropy

May 20, 2019May 19, 2019 Tyrone McKinley Freeman #WalkerCentennial, Activism, black politics, black protest, Black women, Madam CJ Walker, race

*This post is part of our online forum on Madam C.J. Walker for the centennial anniversary of her death.  Madam

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The Trauma of Racial Violence in Frederick Douglass’s America

April 24, 2019April 22, 2019 Kay Wright Lewis #DouglassForward, black lives matter, black protest, Black women, civil rights, Frederick Douglass, police brutality, police violence, Racial Violence, racism

*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each

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Beulah Richardson Charges Genocide

March 21, 2019August 12, 2022 Denise Lynn Activism, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Racial Violence, Resistance

In 1951, William Patterson, the national secretary of the Civil Rights Congress (CRC), a communist affiliated legal organization, presented the

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