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Black Families and the Wilmington Massacre of 1898

November 17, 2022November 10, 2022 DJ Polite #BlackFamily, North Carolina, racism, white supremacy, Wilmington Massacre

This post is part of our forum on “The Significance of the Black Family in the US.” During the election

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Freedom and Liberation: Bounce Music Roundtable Introduction

October 24, 2022October 21, 2022 Tejai Beulah Howard #AAIHSRoundtable, #Bounce, music, sexuality

This post is part of our forum on Bounce Music To understand Bounce music’s history and influence on American culture,

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Historical Legacies, Black Canadian Slavery, and Institutional Histories

September 22, 2022September 22, 2022 Melissa N. Shaw Black women, Canada, slavery, Universities, Women

McGill University’s institutional history dramatically changes when it accounts for the fact that its founder, James McGill, was an enslaver

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Online Roundtable–Soyica Diggs Colbert’s ‘Radical Vision’

September 2, 2022August 29, 2022 AAIHS Editors #RadicalVision, #Roundtable, art, black feminism, Black women, Lorraine Hansberry

September 5-9, 2022 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Soyica Diggs Colbert’s Radical

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Amanda Joyce Hall

Amanda Joyce Hall is a historian of twentieth-century social movements with a specialization in Black freedom movements throughout the U.S.,

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