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On the Life and Legacy of Black Journalist Louis Lomax

May 10, 2021June 5, 2021 Joshua Clark Davis Black Power, Civil Rights Movement, journalism, Nation of Islam

We still have far too few histories of Black journalists. Even as biographers have written on Alex Haley, Ethel Payne,

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British Racial Violence and Transatlantic Black Activism

May 6, 2021June 5, 2021 E. James West Activism, African Diaspora, black protest, police violence, Racial Violence

February of this year marked the thirtieth anniversary of the killing of Rolan Adams, a Black British teenager who was

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Remembering Hubert Harrison, the Father of Harlem Radicalism

April 27, 2021April 27, 2021 Jeffrey B. Perry anti-capitalism, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, social justice

Hubert Harrison (April 27, 1883-December 17, 1927) was a brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and radical political activist. Historian Joel A. Rogers, in

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Call for Submissions: The Centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre

April 23, 2021April 22, 2021 AAIHS Editors

Editor: Robert Greene II, Ph.D. Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), invites blog

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The Connected Histories of #StopAAPIHate and #BlackLivesMatter

April 21, 2021April 20, 2021 Owen Walsh Afro-Asia, black lives matter, Racial Violence

The murder of six women of Asian descent and two other victims in Atlanta by a white male gunman precipitated

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