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Finalists for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History

March 4, 2018March 6, 2018 AAIHS Editors black intellectual history

The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is pleased to announce the finalists for the first annual Pauli Murray Book

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The Pursuit of Happiness: A New Book on Black Women’s Travels Abroad

March 2, 2018March 5, 2018 Keisha N. Blain African Diaspora, black politics, Black women, blackness, Jamaica, travel

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

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Benedita da Silva, Brazil’s First Black Woman Senator and Governor

March 1, 2018March 3, 2018 Jaimee A. Swift Afro-Brazilians, black politics, Black women, Brazil, intersectionality

Female politicians are underrepresented in their leadership and their participation, and their contributions and successes in national, local, and civil

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Black Love as Activism

February 28, 2018March 3, 2018 Nicole Jackson Activism, black, black politics, black protest, Black radicalism, Resistance

Last year was incredibly difficult. There was something that seemed more painful than usual about the deluge of the twenty-four-hour

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Black Women’s Suicide and a Call for Radical Friendship

February 27, 2018March 3, 2018 Celeste Henery Activism, Black women, health, intersectionality, poetry

I am still sitting with the loss of Ashawnty Davis, the 10-year-old Black girl from Aurora, Colorado who ended her

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