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Black Resistance and Lynching Memory: An Interview with Mari N. Crabtree Part II

May 3, 2023August 7, 2023 Menika Dirkson art, interview, lynching, Memory, methods

Today’s post is the second part of Black Perspectives’ regular contributor, Menika Dirkson interview of Mari N. Crabtree on her

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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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