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Sex Wars and the Consolidation of Police Power

August 17, 2022August 12, 2022 Jessica R. Pliley #StreetsBelongToUs, black feminism, carceral state, feminism, Police

This post is part of our online roundtable on Anne Gray Fischer’s The Streets Belong to Us As other writers in

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Organizing for Reproductive Justice: An Interview with Barbara Smith

August 8, 2022August 1, 2022 Joseph R. Fitzgerald #ReproductiveRights, Activism, black feminism, black protest, Black radicalism, Black women, reproductive justice

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women and Reproductive Rights.” In today’s post, Barbara Smith is interviewed

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Blog Announcements: Meet the Editing Team!

July 21, 2022August 4, 2022 AAIHS Editors aaihs

The editing team of Black Perspectives is excited to begin the next academic year! Thank you for supporting us over

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James Farmer and the Roots of a Black Activist-Intellectual

June 23, 2022August 4, 2022 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. biography, Black Power, Civil Rights Movement, James Farmer, Jim Crow

James Farmer conceptualized and developed a nonviolent direct-action philosophy that could be applied in the United States. He drew inspiration from

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Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, and the NAARPR

June 15, 2022June 14, 2022 Tony Pecinovsky abolition, Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, Communism, CPUSA, JoAnne Little, National Defense Organization Against Racist And Political Repression, Prison Abolition

In June 1972, an all-white jury acquitted Angela Davis of charges in her alleged role in an August 1970 Marin County, California

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