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Black Women and Union Widowhood: An Interview with Brandi Brimmer

April 28, 2023April 25, 2023 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. #BlackMilitaryFamilies, Black women, Civil War, interview, Pension

This post is part of our online forum on Black Military Families in the Nineteenth Century. Black Perspectives’  Senior editor, Holly Pinheiro,

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Online Forum–Black Civil War and Public Memory

April 21, 2023April 20, 2023 AAIHS Editors Black Civil War, Black Family, Civil War, Memory, military

April 24, 2022 to April 28, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting

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Afro-Brazilians’ Antiracist Media Productions

April 5, 2023April 3, 2023 Jasmine Mitchell #Roundtable, #VisualizingBlackLives, Brazil, MEDIA, Repreesentation

This post is part of our online roundtable on Reighan Gillam’s Visualizing Black Lives. Who gets to imagine and visualize Black Lives? In

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Aaron Douglas’ History Lesson on the Responsibility of Black Artists

March 22, 2023March 17, 2023 Tiffany Pennamon Aaron Douglas, art, Fisk, HBCU, labor

In an interview with Fisk University professor Leslie Collins, Harlem Renaissance painter and educator Aaron Douglas recalled his admiration for

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Black Internationalism and Haiti: An Interview with Leslie M. Alexander

March 9, 2023March 9, 2023 Lauren T. Rorie Author Interview, Black Internationalist, Haiti, Internationalism, Pan-Africanism

In today’s post, Lauren T. Rorie interviews Dr. Leslie M. Alexander, author of Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth

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