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Online Forum-Urban Rebellions in the 1960s

October 11, 2024October 11, 2024 AAIHS Editors black protest, Resistance, UrbanRebellions

October 14-17, 2024 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum that

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Education and Liberation: A CBFS Conversation

May 8, 2024May 5, 2024 Lucien Baskin black internationalism, Civil Rights Movement, education, race

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black

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Philadelphia’s Fight Against Gun Violence, Poverty, and Crime

August 31, 2023August 11, 2023 Menika Dirkson Philadelphia, violence

In 1969, the New York Times named Philadelphia the “gang capital” of America when the city had the highest rates

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In Afeni’s Shadow: the Impact of Trauma on a Revolutionary Life

May 1, 2023April 30, 2023 Cheryl X. Dong Activism, Black Power, black radical tradition, Black women

Tupac Shakur wrote  “Dear Mama” to celebrate his mother’s strength and plea for her love.  The song is an unfiltered

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George Jackson in a Global Frame

January 24, 2023January 25, 2023 Andrew Anastasi black intellectual history, Black Power

Fifty years ago, George Lester Jackson’s Blood in My Eye dropped like a bomb, but the author did not live to hear

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