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Tricksters, Biographies, and Two-Faced Archives

June 2, 2022June 1, 2022 K. T. Ewing Alberta Hunter, biography, Blues, Chicago, Memphis, Methodology

In 2015, precisely 31 years to the day of her death, blues and cabaret singer Alberta Hunter was inducted into

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AAIHS Statement on the Buffalo Shooting

May 17, 2022July 20, 2022 Robert Greene II black lives matter, Racial Violence, white supremacy

The African American Intellectual History Society condemns the vicious and brutal shooting that occurred on Saturday, May 14 in Buffalo,

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The African American Origins of Modern Asylum

March 9, 2022March 8, 2022 Sean Gallagher asylum, Canada, Diplomacy, escape, Haiti, Mexico

Harriet Tubman, living in Ontario, Canada for most of 1851 to 1861, told an abolitionist interviewing fugitive slaves north of

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#AAIHS2022 Conference Preview: Everyday Practices, Memory Making, and Local Spaces

March 8, 2022March 7, 2022 Tyler Parry #AAIHS2022, #AAIHSConference, African Diaspora, black intellectual history

Later this week the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) will hold its seventh annual conference on March 11-12, 2022,

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Radio Journalism and Civil Rights

January 13, 2022January 12, 2022 Bala James Baptiste black nationalism, Chicago, civil rights, journalism, New Orleans, Radio

The first radio stations that targeted all of their programming toward African Americans in Chicago and New Orleans disseminated different types

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