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The “Radical” King and a Usable Past

April 4, 2022April 3, 2022 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, black politics, Civil Rights Movement

Last September, Black Perspectives published a piece about Martin Luther King, Jr’s use of the year 1619 as a waypoint

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Northern Black People’s Freedom Struggle in the Nineteenth Century

March 21, 2022March 20, 2022 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. black lives matter, black protest, Resistance

During the mid-nineteenth-century, Black people collectively fought for racial equality and social justice within the U.S. The scholarship of historians,

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The African American Origins of Modern Asylum

March 9, 2022March 8, 2022 Sean Gallagher asylum, Canada, Diplomacy, escape, Haiti, Mexico

Harriet Tubman, living in Ontario, Canada for most of 1851 to 1861, told an abolitionist interviewing fugitive slaves north of

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Crossing the Ecclesiastical Color Line: Black Churchgoers in Multiracial Congregations

February 14, 2022February 13, 2022 Jemar Tisby #AAIHSRoundtable, #PewResearchForum, religion

*This post is part of our online forum with the Pew Research Center.  A massive study of Black churchgoers by

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Changing Faces of 21st Century Black Churches and Politics

February 11, 2022February 10, 2022 Nicole Myers Turner #PewResearchForum, Black church, black politics, Black Religion, Black Theology, Preacher

*This post is part of our online forum with the Pew Research Center.  The February 2021 Pew report, “Faith among

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