Search Results for: Black Lives Matter

Black Radicalism in the Face of Anticommunism

May 24, 2021June 5, 2021 Denise Lynn Black radicalism, Claudia Jones, Communism

In the wake of the January 6 coup attempt on Congress, CNN reported on a University of Illinois Cline Center

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Call for Submissions: Juneteenth and the Black Experience

May 21, 2021June 5, 2021 AAIHS Editors Historical Memory

Editor: Robert Greene II, Ph.D. Black Perspectives is inviting blog posts centering around the Juneteenth holiday in time for the

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Black Germans and New Forms of Resistance

May 17, 2021June 5, 2021 Tiffany Florvil Black German, Germany, mourning

In her book In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, scholar Christina Sharpe described her concept of “wake work” as “a

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Black Resistance from Augusta to BLM

May 11, 2021June 5, 2021 John Hayes and Nefertiti Robinson Black Power, Civil Rights Movement, police brutality, police violence

When our work began in December 2018, we sought to confront misinformation and erasure surrounding the “riot” of May 11-12,

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The Black Refugee Tradition     

April 7, 2021April 18, 2021 Sean Gallagher black internationalism, Migration

From October 1, 2019 to September 30, 2020, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported over 6,700 people whose country

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