“Most needed blessings”: The “all lives matter” debate in 1837
Think the current controversy over “black lives matter” is new? African American activists wrestled with the question almost 200 years
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What to the Black Academic is the 4th of July?
July 4 is not normally a day that we associate with black history. The “we” here refers both to the
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La Esclava Blanca: The New Telenovela Rewriting Colombia’s History of Slavery
This is a guest post by Yesenia Barragan, a historian of race, slavery, and emancipation in Colombia, Afro-Latin America, and
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Is Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome Stamped from the Beginning?
This post was inspired by Professor Ibram X. Kendi’s insightful AAIHS critique of Professor Joy DeGruy’s equally insightful book Post
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The Future of the African American Religious Past
Today’s guest post is from Paul Harvey, Professor of History, and Presidential Teaching Scholar at the University of Colorado. Dr.
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