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Online Forum: A History of Student Activism

December 30, 2017January 8, 2018 AAIHS Editors #StudentActivismForum, civil rights, student activism, youth

January 8–12, 2018 A line of African American students walking through a crowd of white boys in Clinton, TN, during

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The Race to Preserve African American Radio

December 21, 2017December 27, 2017 Joshua Clark Davis Black Power, Civil Rights Movement

What are the sounds of African American history? And how can we preserve those sounds? Those are the central questions

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From Head Shops to Whole Foods: A New Book on Activist Entrepreneurs

December 18, 2017December 23, 2017 Julie Hawks African American bookstores

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

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Dismantling Whiteness as the Beauty Standard

December 9, 2017December 14, 2017 Sasha Turner African Diaspora, Black women, blackness, Colorism, Resistance, slavery, white supremacy

Miss Jamaica Davina Bennett rejected Eurocentric beauty ideals when she sported her afro at this year’s Miss Universe Pageant. Bennett had

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The Communist Party’s Role in the British Anti-Racist Movement

December 4, 2017December 8, 2017 Evan Smith Activism, Blacks in Britain, capitalism, Communism

My new book British Communism and the Politics of Race uncovers the prominent anti-racist role that the Communist Party of

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