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“Greenwood: The Precarity of Black Prosperity”

June 7, 2021June 6, 2021 Phyllis M. May-Machunda Historical Memory, Racial Violence, Tulsa

Committed to Booker T’s dream for Black success, Black Tulsans devoted themselves to business and self-help. Investing as entrepreneurs and

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George Floyd and the Global Fight for Black Lives

May 26, 2021June 5, 2021 Mickell Carter Black Europe, black internationalism, blackness, police brutality, police violence

The murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, acted as a catalyst for Black Lives Matter protests around the

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Black Radicalism in the Face of Anticommunism

May 24, 2021June 5, 2021 Denise Lynn Black radicalism, Claudia Jones, Communism

In the wake of the January 6 coup attempt on Congress, CNN reported on a University of Illinois Cline Center

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Call for Submissions: Juneteenth and the Black Experience

May 21, 2021June 5, 2021 AAIHS Editors Historical Memory

Editor: Robert Greene II, Ph.D. Black Perspectives is inviting blog posts centering around the Juneteenth holiday in time for the

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Black Germans and New Forms of Resistance

May 17, 2021June 5, 2021 Tiffany Florvil Black German, Germany, mourning

In her book In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, scholar Christina Sharpe described her concept of “wake work” as “a

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