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Black Women and the Peoples Temple in Jonestown

January 31, 2017February 3, 2017 Sikivu Hutchinson religion

On November 18, 1978, over nine hundred members of the San Francisco-based Peoples Temple church (including over three hundred children)

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Donald Trump’s Old Deal for Black America

January 29, 2017February 1, 2017 Jessica Ann Levy capitalism, Donald Trump, Politics, presidents, racism

On January 20, 2017, the world watched—many in horror—as Donald Trump was officially sworn in as the forty-fifth president of

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Online Forum: “Remembering Malcolm”

January 28, 2017February 16, 2017 AAIHS Editors #RememberingMalcolm

February 19-25, 2017 Black Perspectives is hosting an online forum in recognition of the 52nd anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination.

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Power to the People: Attica and Radical Reconstruction

January 26, 2017January 28, 2017 Russell Rickford #BloodintheWater, carceral state, mass incarceration, police violence

This is the fifth day of our roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison

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Attica: The Present and the Recent Past

January 26, 2017January 28, 2017 LaShawn Harris #BloodintheWater, carceral state, mass incarceration, police violence

This is the fifth day of our roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison

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