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Black Women’s Histories and the Power of Truth-Telling

January 16, 2018January 20, 2018 Janell Hobson Activism, Black women

Not long after Oprah Winfrey, the iconic media mogul and pioneer for African American women in film, television, and journalism,

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Black Student Power in Boston

January 9, 2018January 13, 2018 Tess Bundy #StudentActivismForum, black protest, Black Studies, Boston, education, student activism, youth

*This post is part of our online forum on Student Activism. The story of the “Boston busing crisis” of the 1970s dominates

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Sometime Between: Living Archives and the Power of Black Agency

September 25, 2017September 29, 2017 Rhon Manigault-Bryant #AAIHSRoundtable, #NewWorld, religion

This post is the introduction to our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming In the opening pages of New World A-Coming: Black

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Colin Kaepernick and the Power of Black Silent Protest

September 4, 2017September 7, 2017 Ameer Hasan Loggins Activism, black protest, Colin Kaepernick, police brutality

On July 28, 1917, thousands of Black children, women, and men stoically marched in silence down Fifth Avenue in New

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Black Genealogies of Power: Seven Maxims for Resistance in the Trump Years

February 27, 2017March 1, 2017 Dan Berger black radical tradition, Politics, Resistance, Trumpism

“Power concedes nothing without demand,” argued Frederick Douglass in one of his most cited speeches. “It never did and it

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