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Black Student Activism and the Ivy League

September 10, 2019September 10, 2019 Jon Hale #AAIHSRoundtable, #UpendingTheIvoryTower, Activism, black politics, Black Power, black protest, education, race, Resistance

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Stefan M. Bradley’s Upending the Ivory

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The Ongoing Struggle of the Black Ivy League

September 9, 2019September 10, 2019 Alaina Morgan #AAIHSRoundtable, #UpendingTheIvoryTower, Activism, black intellectual history, Black Power, black protest, education, race, Resistance

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Stefan M. Bradley’s Upending

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How Black Activists Sought Healthcare Reform: A New Documentary

September 5, 2019September 16, 2019 Christopher Willoughby Activism, Black film, black intellectual history, black politics, capitalism, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, film, health, medicine

“The American Medical Association has never been a friend to us [African Americans],” explained the late Chicago physician Dr. Donald

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Introducing New Writers and Editors for ‘Black Perspectives’

September 2, 2019September 1, 2019 AAIHS Editors

Black Perspectives is excited to announce our return from our annual summer break. We have excellent essays, interviews, roundtables, and

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Black or Gay: Meditations on Marlon Riggs’s Tongues Untied at 30

July 30, 2019July 30, 2019 Lavelle Porter #TonguesUntied30, art, Black film, Black Queers, film, Gender, LGBT, race, sexuality

*This post is part of our online forum to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of Marlon Riggs’s groundbreaking film, Tongues Untied. “Priorities. That’s

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