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Fantastic and Fatal Coalitions: Revisiting ‘Blood Syndicate’

October 8, 2019October 6, 2019 Rebecca Wanzo #comicsandrace, #MilestoneMedia, black intellectual history, comic books, comics, race, urban history, violence

*This post is part of our online forum on the Black-owned and -controlled Milestone Media. In 1983, Bernice Johnson Reagon

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Making a World: Comics, Meaning, and the Dakotaverse

October 7, 2019October 6, 2019 Julian Chambliss #MilestoneMedia, comic books, comics, geography, race, urban history

*This post is part of our online forum on the Black-owned and -controlled Milestone Media. In Milestone Forever, a documentary

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Salvific Manhood: A New Book about Male Intimacy in James Baldwin’s Novels

October 4, 2019October 4, 2019 J. T. Roane black intellectual history, Black Queer Identity, Gender, James Baldwin, literature, masculinity, sexuality

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

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‘Rhodes Must Fall’ and Decolonizing Education

October 1, 2019September 22, 2019 Nicholas Grant Activism, African Diaspora, Anticolonialism, Black Europe, black protest, decolonization, education, empire, race, reparations

Writing in 2006, the historian Manning Marable asserted that, “The Black public intellectual must actively engage the past in such

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Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics: An Interview with Benjamin Talton

September 30, 2019September 30, 2019 Keisha N. Blain Activism, africa, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black political thought, black politics, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Pan-Africanism, Politics, race

In today’s post, AAIHS President Keisha N. Blain interviews Benjamin Talton, an associate professor of History at Temple University, about his

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