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Martin Luther King, Jr. and 1619

September 22, 2021September 22, 2021 Robert Greene II black protest, civil rights, race

Martin Luther King, Jr. being Interviewed, with Coretta Scott King next to him, October 20, 1965 (Wikimedia Commons)   Throughout

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Theorists, Strategists, and Histories of Slavery

September 7, 2021November 18, 2021 Diana Paton Black women, slavery

In the 1640s in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, Maria Portogoys, a “half free,” formerly enslaved woman, arranged that

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Allegiance, Birthright, and Race in America

August 4, 2021August 3, 2021 William Darity Jr. and Charles Ali Bey #contestedcitizenship, civil rights, race, slavery, South

“This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study

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Online Forum–Contested Citizenship: Legacies of American Slavery

July 26, 2021July 26, 2021 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, black politics, civil rights

August 2, 2021 to August 10, 2021 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating

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Blackness, Norwegian Identity, and Nationality

July 23, 2021July 22, 2021 Matthew Teutsch black internationalism, black lives matter, music

  Speaking about his research, 2019 Holberg Laureate Paul Gilroy told the committee, “I am particularly engaged by the fate of people

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