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2023 Finalists for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History

March 8, 2023March 7, 2023 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSConference, AAIHS23, Book Award, conference, Pauli Murray, Pauli Murray Book Award Finalists

    The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is pleased to announce the finalists for the fifth annual Pauli

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Conversations in Black Freedom Studies: An Interview

February 28, 2023February 26, 2023 Lucien Baskin black intellectual history, CBFS, Civil Rights Movement

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

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Black Los Angeles and the LAPD in the Early 1960s

February 21, 2023February 20, 2023 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. black politics, police brutality, police violence

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and other city officials could have prevented the Watts Rebellion in August 1965 had they addressed the concerns

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The Racist Origins of the Real ID Act

February 20, 2023February 19, 2023 Bea Abbott carceral state, Politics, race, racism

As of May 2023, a passport or driver’s license which proves legal residence in the U.S. will be needed to

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The Fight for Fountain Square

February 15, 2023February 9, 2023 E. James West Cincinnati, DOCUMERICA, Fountain Square, segregation, urban history

The intersections of race and place lie at the heart of my ongoing DOCUMERICA series for Black Perspectives. Through the

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