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“The Streets Belong to Us”: An Author’s Response

August 22, 2022August 19, 2022 Anne Gray Fischer #AAIHSRoundtable, #StreetsBelongToUs, Black women, sexuality

This post is part of our online roundtable on Anne Gray Fischer’s The Streets Belong to Us I am a daily

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Blog Announcements: Meet the Editing Team!

July 21, 2022August 4, 2022 AAIHS Editors aaihs

The editing team of Black Perspectives is excited to begin the next academic year! Thank you for supporting us over

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Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, and the NAARPR

June 15, 2022June 14, 2022 Tony Pecinovsky abolition, Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, Communism, CPUSA, JoAnne Little, National Defense Organization Against Racist And Political Repression, Prison Abolition

In June 1972, an all-white jury acquitted Angela Davis of charges in her alleged role in an August 1970 Marin County, California

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Searching for Anna Douglass in the Archives

June 6, 2022June 5, 2022 Daina Ramey Berry #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackWomenBio, Black women, Gender

On a warm August afternoon in 1882, 3,000 family, friends, and acquaintances gathered to pay their respects to Mrs. Anna

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Writing on the Legacy of May Ayim

June 3, 2022June 2, 2022 Tiffany Florvil African Diaspora, Black Europe, Black German Movement, Germany, May Ayim, Transnational Feminism

In her suicide note on August 9, 1996, Black German activist-intellectual May Ayim sadly wrote, “I have lived and experienced

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