Search Results for: Booker T. Washington

Why Black People Believe the End is Near

October 31, 2023October 24, 2023 Benjamin Baker black intellectual history, racism, religion

Recently Pew Research Center released the results of a study on “How Religion Intersects with Americans’ Views on the Environment.” In it,

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Robert Smalls and Reconstruction Politics

September 6, 2023August 22, 2023 Karen Cook Bell Civil War, education, Leadership, Politics, reconstruction, Robert Smalls

Reconstruction politics shares a political lineage with the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. Both periods sought to fulfill the nation’s mandate

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Zora Neale Hurston’s Anthropological Legacy

March 30, 2023March 23, 2023 Ida E. Jones Anthropology, black feminism, book review, Womanism, Zora Neale Hurston

As the twentieth century shrinks in the collective imagination of American popular culture, select iconographic images and sounds remain eternal.

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New Challenges, New Ideas, and Black Reformers of Pittsburgh

February 7, 2023February 4, 2023 Brandon James Render #AAIHSRoundtable, #CanaanDim, Activism, black intellectual history

This post is part of our online roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan, Dim and Far. In a recent Twitter

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New England’s Unsung Black Liberation Movement

December 8, 2022December 6, 2022 Dylan O’Hara Activism, Boston, education, Massachusetts, New England, School Activism

Zebulon Miletsky’s impressive book project, Before Busing: A History of Boston’s Long Black Freedom Struggle, weaves together 350 years of

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