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Northern Journalism in the Promotion of the Lost Cause

March 26, 2024March 27, 2024 Marvin Walker #BooksArchivesMonuments, antiblackness, Black Newspapers, Black Reconstruction, Jim Crow

This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.” Since the age of

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The Dichotomy of Enslaved Women’s Work in the Antebellum South

March 20, 2024March 12, 2024 O.G. McClinton, III #BooksArchivesMonuments, Black History

This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.” The work of enslaved

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Black Women’s Activism and the Long 1960s: A CBFS Interview

March 14, 2024March 11, 2024 Lucien Baskin Activism, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Resistance

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated by Jeanne

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#AAIHS2024–Reparations: Past, Present, and Future

March 4, 2024March 4, 2024 Robert Greene II #AAIHS2024

Later this week the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) will hold its ninth annual conference from March 8-9, 2024

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Mexican Freedom, American Slavery

February 12, 2024February 6, 2024 María Esther Hammack Black women, Butter, Mexico, slavery

In the late 1820s, an industrious Black woman from Mississippi was living in Coahuila as a free woman and a

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