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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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The Early Activism of Angela Davis

February 7, 2024February 7, 2024 Joshua L. Crutchfield Activism, Black women, carceral state, police brutality

On October 13, 1970, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Angela Davis in New York facing indictments for kidnapping,

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On Transnational Black Feminism

January 31, 2024January 29, 2024 Keisha N. Blain black feminism, black nationalism, garvey, UNIA

Today’s post was originally published on April 14, 2017. Black women and other women of color have been historically marginalized

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