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Reconsidering Malcolm X and Islam

February 8, 2016February 9, 2016 Guest Poster Malcolm X, Nation of Islam

This is a guest post by Garrett Felber, a scholar of 20th century African American history at the University of Michigan

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#SandyStillSpeaks: “Living Black History” and Resources on Sandra Bland

January 28, 2016January 29, 2016 Phillip Luke Sinitiere #sayhername, Sandra Bland

Previous AAIHS posts about Sandra Bland include an account of local civil rights groundwork in Waller County following Bland’s death,

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Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the 1920s: An Interview with Shannon King

December 10, 2015December 9, 2015 Keisha N. Blain black politics, Harlem, Politics

This month, I interviewed Shannon King about his new book, Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway? Community Politics and Grassroots Activism

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“The Power and Importance of Ideas:” Grace Lee Boggs’s Revolutionary Vision

October 18, 2015October 18, 2015 Ashley Farmer

In the opening lines of her autobiography, Living for Change, Grace Lee Boggs remarked: “Had I not been born female

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What is Happening in Waller County?: Sandra Bland and the Sister Comrades Who #sayhername

August 12, 2015August 12, 2015 Phillip Luke Sinitiere

On Friday, July 10, 2015, just outside of the campus of Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) in Waller County, a

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