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Racial Fascism in the Postwar United States

July 22, 2021July 21, 2021 Denise Lynn Activism, Black radicalism, Black women, Jim Crow, police violence

  The Communist Party (CPUSA) was a leader in the antifascist left in the 1930s. The Party had a broad

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Ada Wright, the Scottsboro Defense Campaign, and the Popular Front

July 13, 2021July 11, 2021 Ashley Everson black protest, Black women, racism

In the midst of the Great Depression in 1931, nine Black teenage boys were falsely convicted of allegedly raping two

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An Interview with Curator Kelli Morgan

July 7, 2021July 6, 2021 Julia Bernier African American Art, Art History, black feminism, black intellectual history, Black women

        In today’s post, Julia Wallace Bernier, a regular contributor to Black Perspectives, interviews Dr. Kelli Morgan,

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Book Club on Jean Casimir’s ‘The Haitians: A Decolonial History’

July 5, 2021June 26, 2021 AAIHS Editors Haiti, Resistance

The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is co-sponsoring an upcoming book club on Jean Casimir’s The Haitians: A Decolonial

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Consumerism and Curation: Sarah Tate’s Resistance

June 25, 2021June 25, 2021 Katie Knowles Activism, black intellectual history, black protest, Black women, capitalism, Gender

On June 19, 1865, Sarah Tate was living about 160 miles west of Galveston, Texas, on the homestead of James

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