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Writing “the People” Back In

February 25, 2020February 23, 2020 Dara Walker #AAIHSRoundtable, #APoliticalEducation, Activism, black politics, Black women, education, education reform

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Elizabeth Todd-Breland’s A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago Since

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An Open Letter to Netflix and the Producers and Directors of “Who Killed Malcolm X?”

February 24, 2020February 25, 2020 AAIHS Editors

We are writing to express our profound disappointment at the complete disregard of women activists and women scholars in the

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On America

February 19, 2020February 16, 2020 Marquis Bey #OnSuite, Black political thought, black politics, black protest, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, Black radicalism, Gender, LGBT, race

*This post is part of contributor Marquis Bey’s On Suite series. “I love America more than any other country in this world,

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Rosa Parks on Police Brutality: The Speech We Never Heard

January 23, 2020January 23, 2020 Say Burgin Activism, black politics, black protest, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, police brutality, police violence

In 1965, Rosa Parks would have had a lot to say about police brutality. By then, she had left Alabama

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Diasporic Salutations and the West African Origins of the ‘Dap’

October 14, 2019October 9, 2019 Tyler Parry African Diaspora, popular culture, Resistance, slavery

Until recently, the salutations of Black America were an anomaly to mainstream white Americans. The verbal expressions, hand gestures, and

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