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The Black Press and the Ku Klux Klan

October 18, 2017October 21, 2017 Felix Harcourt black intellectual history, Racial Violence

“Crouching, cringing, shrinking from both physical and intellectual light,” Chandler Owen wrote, “the Klan is a true anthropoid germ which

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Black Death and the Possibilities for Diasporic Solidarity

October 10, 2017October 16, 2017 Nicole Jackson Activism, African Diaspora, Black Europe, black internationalism, police violence

In the aftermath of Mike Brown’s 2014 death, comparatively small Black populations in London, Berlin and Amsterdam spearheaded solidarity marches

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Online Roundtable: Devyn Spence Benson’s Antiracism in Cuba

October 1, 2017November 7, 2017 AAIHS Editors #AntiracismInCuba, Afro-Cubans, Cuba

November 6-11, 2017 Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online roundtable on Devyn Spence

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Rethinking Religion and Race in the Great Migration

September 27, 2017October 1, 2017 Emily Clark #AAIHSRoundtable, #NewWorld, Nation of Islam, religion

This post is part of our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial

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Bringing Archives of Death and Life into the Classroom

September 21, 2017September 23, 2017 James Padilioni Jr black intellectual history, teaching

This fall I am teaching African American History Since 1863, starting with the event of Emancipation as a legal-juridical happening

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