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Black Love as Activism

February 28, 2018March 3, 2018 Nicole Jackson Activism, black, black politics, black protest, Black radicalism, Resistance

Last year was incredibly difficult. There was something that seemed more painful than usual about the deluge of the twenty-four-hour

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Online Roundtable: Keri Leigh Merritt’s “Masterless Men”

February 26, 2018March 11, 2018 AAIHS Editors #MasterlessMen, slavery

March 5-9, 2018 Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men: Poor

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Race, Religion and Radicalism: King and Du Bois

February 22, 2018March 1, 2018 Edward Carson #AAIHSRoundtable, #DuBoisForum, black intellectual history, black politics, black protest, Black radicalism, capitalism, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. On the occasion of a dual anniversary—the year we

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Karen Cook Bell

Karen Cook Bell is Professor of History and the Wilson H. Elkins Endowed Professor at Bowie State University. Her areas

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The History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital

February 10, 2018February 13, 2018 Rebecca Brenner Graham black politics, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, race, Washington DC

2018 marks the fiftieth anniversary of a crucial moment for Washington, D.C. On April 4, 1968, following news of Dr.

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