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Albert Luthuli: A New Book on Africa’s First Nobel Peace Prize Winner

December 17, 2018December 24, 2018 Keisha N. Blain South Africa

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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The Best Black History Books of 2018

December 14, 2018December 24, 2018 AAIHS Editors

We asked editors and bloggers of Black Perspectives to select the best books published in 2018 on Black History, and

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Literacy, History, and African American Spirituals

December 13, 2018December 24, 2018 Karen Cook Bell #BlackLivesMatter, race, religion, Resistance, slavery

In his 1935 interview with Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Quarterman, a ninety-one-year-old formerly enslaved man, shared a

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Reclaiming the Black Past: A New Book on the Use and Misuse of African American History

December 12, 2018December 24, 2018 Keisha N. Blain black intellectual history, Historical Memory

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Black Lives Matter, Black Power, and the Role of White Allies

December 12, 2018December 24, 2018 Say Burgin Activism, black lives matter

The Movement for Black Lives has revived many familiar debates, one of which revolves around the question of the role

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