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The Radical Tradition of Student Protest

January 15, 2019January 29, 2019 Mike Jirik black radical tradition, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, student activism

On the night of August 20, 2018, student protesters at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill toppled a

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Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality on the Frontier

January 11, 2019January 29, 2019 Jacob Jurss American West, landownership, Resistance

At the turn of the 20th century historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued, “[t]he frontier is the line of most rapid

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Readings on Transnational African American History

January 8, 2019January 29, 2019 Nico Slate and Clayton Vaughn-Roberson Activism, black internationalism, Politics

African American History has always transcended borders of many kinds, yet historians have not always recognized the transnational and global

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Happy New Year from Black Perspectives

January 1, 2019January 29, 2019 AAIHS Editors

The editing team of Black Perspectives wishes you all a very happy new year! Thank you for supporting us in 2018! We

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Top 10 of 2018 – #2 – A Brief History of the “Black Friend”

December 27, 2018January 29, 2019 Tyler Parry #TopTen

*Editor’s Note: As the year comes to a close, we’re featuring the ten most popular pieces we published on Black Perspectives. This

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