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Online Forum: The Imprisoned Black Radical Tradition

August 19, 2020September 1, 2020 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackAugust, IBRT

August 24, 2020 to August 28, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), will host an online

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Beyoncé’s ‘Black Is King’ and the Pitfalls of African Consciousness

August 18, 2020August 17, 2020 Russell Rickford culture, popular culture

African American imaginings of Africa often intermingle with–and help illuminate–intimate hopes and desires for Black life in the United States.

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Agents of Change: Black Freethinkers Then and Now

August 17, 2020August 16, 2020 Lauren T. Rorie black intellectual history, religion

Religion, as part of the trifecta of “sex, politics, and religion” is the most under-examined aspect of contemporary Black feminist

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Racial Capitalism, Legacies of Slavery, and Social Movements

August 14, 2020August 14, 2020 Crystal Eddins Black Death Ideology

On Friday, June 5, 2020, the Fox News cable news network aired a graphic depicting stock market performance during periods

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Unearthing New Histories of Black Appalachia

August 12, 2020August 14, 2020 Jillean McCommons Historical Memory, South Carolina

“Depending on the ‘truth’ of the alternate versions, Liberia’s founding may be seen as a white kindness or as a

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