Josephine Butler and Environmental Activism in Washington, DC
The first time I heard about Josephine Butler was when I stepped into the building named after her––the Josephine Butler
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Black Studies, Activism, and Digital History: An Interview with Abdul Alkalimat
This month I interviewed the scholar-activist Abdul Alkalimat (born Gerald McWorter) about his new website and his life of scholarship
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2017 in Review: Top Posts on Black Women’s History
In 2017, Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), featured a wide variety of pieces, including articles that
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Moving Slave Narratives from Film to Comics
Comics might not be the first place you’d think to go to for profound meditations on complex topics like war,
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Centrist Liberalism and the Myths of the American Past
We are now a full year into the Trump Administration, and a serious ideological challenge has yet to be leveled
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