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Writing Women Into Black Power

April 23, 2018April 28, 2018 Laura Warren Hill #RemakingBlackPower, Activism, African Diaspora, black feminism, black politics, Black women

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Ashley Farmer’s Remaking Black Power In Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed

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The Lost Black Scholar: A New Book on the Pioneering Anthropologist Allison Davis

April 18, 2018April 21, 2018 J. T. Roane Chicago, civil rights, education, Jim Crow

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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British Culpability in the Trading and Enslavement of Africans

April 12, 2018April 24, 2018 Sasha Turner Blacks in Britain, Caribbean, reparations, slave trade, slavery

“In 1833, Britain used £20 million, 40 per cent of its national budget, to buy freedom for all slaves in

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“Free the Land!”: Fifty Years of the Republic of New Afrika

April 10, 2018April 30, 2018 Dan Berger black nationalism, Black radicalism, self-determination

An impressive assortment of Black radicals gathered to sign the Declaration of Independence. It was not Philadelphia 1776, of course,

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2018 AAIHS Award Recipients

April 8, 2018April 13, 2018 AAIHS Editors

*The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) recently held our third annual conference at Brandeis University from March 30-31st. We recognized the

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