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Utopia in Dark Times

August 10, 2022August 2, 2022 Victoria W. Wolcott race, religion

In this turbulent historical moment, I find myself often reflecting on Octavia Butler’s 1993 novel Parable of the Sower . Butler

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Call for Submissions: The Significance of the Black Family in the US

August 10, 2022August 10, 2022 AAIHS Editors Marriage

“For generations the [Black] family has remained an important cauldron of resistance, forging and preserving a vital legacy of collective

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Online Roundtable–Anne Gray Fischer’s ‘The Streets Belong To Us’

August 9, 2022August 10, 2022 AAIHS Editors #StreetsBelongToUs, carceral state, policing

August 15-22, 2022 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of Urban

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Organizing for Reproductive Justice: An Interview with Barbara Smith

August 8, 2022August 1, 2022 Joseph R. Fitzgerald #ReproductiveRights, Activism, black feminism, black protest, Black radicalism, Black women, reproductive justice

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women and Reproductive Rights.” In today’s post, Barbara Smith is interviewed

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Online Forum–Black Women and Reproductive Rights

July 25, 2022July 25, 2022 AAIHS Editors Black women, reproductive justice

August 1, 2022 to August 8, 2022 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting

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