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The Moral Challenge of the Middle Passage

March 6, 2017March 10, 2017 Jessica Marie Johnson #SlaveryAtSea, slave trade

This is the introduction to our online roundtable on Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea The field of Middle Passage Studies

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Black Genealogies of Power: Seven Maxims for Resistance in the Trump Years

February 27, 2017March 1, 2017 Dan Berger black radical tradition, Politics, Resistance, Trumpism

“Power concedes nothing without demand,” argued Frederick Douglass in one of his most cited speeches. “It never did and it

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Online Roundtable: Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea

February 26, 2017February 28, 2017 AAIHS Editors slave trade, slavery

March 6–11, 2017 Black Perspectives is hosting an online roundtable on Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the

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Malcolm X in Brooklyn

February 20, 2017February 23, 2017 Zaheer Ali #RememberingMalcolm, black intellectual history, black nationalism, Malcolm X, Pan-Africanism

This post is part of our online forum,” Remembering Malcolm,” edited by Garrett Felber. In his eloquent and moving eulogy for Malcolm X,

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A Mind to Stay: A New Book on Black Landowners

February 18, 2017February 20, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black, Deep South, slavery, South

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

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