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Online Forum: Martin Luther King Jr. and American Cities

March 25, 2018April 3, 2018 AAIHS Editors Martin Luther King Jr., MLK and American Cities

Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on Martin Luther King Jr. and American Cities. Organized

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Exposing the Primary Agents and Beneficiaries of Racism

March 7, 2018March 11, 2018 Chad Pearson #MasterlessMen, Racial Violence, racism, reconstruction, slavery, white supremacy

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Ta-Nehisi Coates and members of his fan club must read

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Antebellum Law and the Southern Justice System

March 6, 2018March 11, 2018 Michael Landis #MasterlessMen, slavery, South

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. I must confess from the outset that I never had

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Mississippi’s Civil Rights Museum: Reflections from a Native Daughter

February 14, 2018February 16, 2018 Tiyi Morris Activism, black protest, Black women, civil rights, Donald Trump, racism

Several weeks ago, I attended the opening activities for the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson. The museum represents a long-overdue,

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A Riot in the Social Order: On Race, Religion, and Power

February 2, 2018February 5, 2018 J. T. Roane religion

*A version of this essay originally appeared on The Immanent Frame, a forum of the Social Science Research Council, as part

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