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The Relationship Between African Americans and Africa

August 11, 2020August 13, 2020 Christopher Ndubuizu African Diaspora, blackness, Historical Memory

Negro, African, Colored, Afro-American, African American, and Black are identifiers that reflect the variety of ways African Americans have identified

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#AAIHS2021: Call for Papers–A Virtual Conference

August 7, 2020August 17, 2020 AAIHS Editors

Theme: ‘The West’ Dates: March 19-20, 2021 “The West” is a significant, but ambivalent, concept in the diasporic Black experience.

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More than Diversity— A Call to Action from University of Chicago Faculty

August 6, 2020August 6, 2020 AAIHS Editors abolition, Activism, black protest, boycott, education, reparations, Resistance, strike

This abridged document has been edited for brevity.  The full letter can be read here. To pledge your support for

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The Everyday Black Life of Abolition

August 5, 2020August 12, 2020 Celeste Winston maroons, policing, Prison Abolition, social justice

The summer of 2020 has seen extraordinary uprisings against policing in the United States. An estimated 15 to 26 million

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We Need Histories of Radical Black Ecology Now

August 3, 2020August 4, 2020 Romy Opperman #BlackEcologies, Black Ecologies, capitalism

*This post is part of our new series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane. The events

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