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Online Roundtable: Kate Dossett’s Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal

July 7, 2020July 10, 2020 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable

July 13-17 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with The Journal of Civil

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Ties that Bind? Emerging Race-Conscious Alliances Between African Immigrants and Black Americans

July 7, 2020July 5, 2020 Drew Smith Activism, African Diaspora, black politics, police violence

The atrocity of George Floyd’s killing by police has stoked anger over systemic racism while also helping redraw geographic, demographic,

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Losing Willie McGee

July 6, 2020July 5, 2020 Denise Lynn Politics, racism, white supremacy

The toll a failed political campaign takes on an individual can be devastating, none more so than when a life

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Denying the Franchise as Incitement to Genocide

June 24, 2020June 21, 2020 Denise Lynn civil rights, race, racism

In 1951, William Patterson and the Civil Rights Congress presented a 238-page document to the United Nations accusing the United

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An Appeal –Bring the Maroon to the Foreground in Black Intellectual History

June 19, 2020June 17, 2020 Yannick Marshall black intellectual history, marronage, race, Racial Violence, racism, Resistance, violence, white supremacy

Within the larger narrative of slave resistance, maroons offered a unique experiment. They created and exposed to whites and blacks

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