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Online Forum: HBO’s Watchmen

February 4, 2020February 2, 2020 AAIHS Editors #Watchmen, black politics, comic books, comics, film, forum, popular culture, race, television

February 10–13, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on HBO’s hit series

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Housing Discrimination in the Jim Crow US and The Case for Reparations

February 4, 2020February 2, 2020 AAIHS Editors housing, segregation, urban history

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

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W.E.B. Du Bois, Haiti, and US Imperialism

January 28, 2020January 26, 2020 Crystal Eddins Activism, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, imperialism, slavery, Social Movements, W.E.B. Du Bois

This piece follows up on the January 2019 post “Haitian and French Petrol Protests in the Age of Climate Change.”

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Charlotta Bass for Vice-President: America’s Two-Parties and the Black Vote

January 21, 2020August 19, 2020 Denise Lynn Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, Black women, capitalism, Communism, Politics, white supremacy

Social media has brought the culture wars to a larger audience and demonstrates how conservatives have constructed historical narratives to

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Black Scholars Respond to Dr. Lorgia García Peña Tenure Denial at Harvard

December 12, 2019January 2, 2020 AAIHS Editors Activism, education

*The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) stands in solidarity with Dr. Lorgia García Peña, a Black Studies scholar who was recently

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