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In Afeni’s Shadow: the Impact of Trauma on a Revolutionary Life

May 1, 2023April 30, 2023 Cheryl X. Dong Activism, Black Power, black radical tradition, Black women

Tupac Shakur wrote  “Dear Mama” to celebrate his mother’s strength and plea for her love.  The song is an unfiltered

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Correcting the Anti-Black Civil War Commemorative Landscape in Harrisburg, PA

April 27, 2023April 25, 2023 Hilary Green Civil War, Commemoration, Memory, Pennsylvania, USCT

This post is part of our online forum on Black Military Families in the Nineteenth Century. Dedicated during the national reckoning of

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The Families of the Louisiana Native Guards

April 26, 2023April 25, 2023 Anthony J. Cade II #BlackMilitaryFamilies, Black Family, Civil War, Louisiana, Women

This post is part of our online forum on Black Military Families in the Nineteenth Century. On May 1, 1861,

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Black Soldiers and their Families’ Activism during the Antebellum Era

April 24, 2023April 24, 2023 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackMilitaryFamilies, Activism, slavery

This post is part of our online forum on Black Military Families in the Nineteenth Century. For many people today,

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Howard Thurman: A Bridge Between Movements

April 17, 2023April 16, 2023 Tryce D. Prince #AAIHSRoundtable, #HowardThurman, black intellectual history

This post is part of our forum on Howard Thurman and the Civil Rights Movement. In 1897, a group of scholars and

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