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Cartoonist Jackie Ormes’ Commentary on Black Life

January 5, 2018January 8, 2018 Matthew Teutsch black politics, Black women, civil rights, lynching, Racial Violence, segregation

Writing in the Chicago Defender in 1948, Langston Hughes proclaimed, “If I were marooned on a desert island . . . I

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Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A New Book on the Idea of Reparations

January 5, 2018January 8, 2018 Julie Hawks reparations

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

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Erica Garner and the Trauma of Police Violence in Black Communities

January 3, 2018January 5, 2018 Ameer Hasan Loggins health, police brutality, police violence, policing

As I write this article, I want to be clear about my intended audience. I am writing this piece in remembrance

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Online Forum: A History of Student Activism

December 30, 2017January 8, 2018 AAIHS Editors #StudentActivismForum, civil rights, student activism, youth

January 8–12, 2018 A line of African American students walking through a crowd of white boys in Clinton, TN, during

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2017 in Review: Roundtables on Black Perspectives

December 27, 2017January 2, 2018 AAIHS Editors

In 2017, Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), hosted ten online roundtables and forums, featuring leading scholars

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