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NMAAHC and the Internationalism of African American History

September 21, 2016March 10, 2019 Skyler Gordon

This Saturday, on September 24, 2016, the National Mall will be filled with black church groups and middle school class

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Rebuilding the Robesonian Labor Movement

September 10, 2016September 10, 2016 Russell Rickford black lives matter, poverty

This post is an amended version of a speech delivered at the Tompkins County Workers Center’s Labor Day Picnic at

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The Difficulty of Uncovering Obscure Lives and Hidden Histories

September 9, 2016December 30, 2016 Brian Purnell archives, Black women, Harlem, New York, research

Today is the fifth day of our roundtable on LaShawn Harris’s new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black

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“Racial Strife That’s Making Milwaukee Infamous”–Then and Now

September 3, 2016September 1, 2016 Mark Speltz NAACP, police brutality

Many Americans have read or seen the fiery aftermath following the recent police killing of Sylville Smith, but few are

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Blood in the Water: A New Book on the Attica Prison Uprising of 1971

August 23, 2016August 21, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi Activism, Black radicalism, police brutality, police violence

This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am editing–announcing the publication of selected new books

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