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Toward the Preservation of Black Joy in Public Memory

October 18, 2022October 13, 2022 Jessy Ohl, Shalonda Capers, and Caran Kennedy Racial Violence, Resistance

Representations of Black experiences remain frustratingly narrow in public commemoration efforts across the U.S. For many decades, and especially in

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Online Forum–Black Women and Brown v. Board of Education

September 30, 2022October 3, 2022 AAIHS Editors #BlackWomenBOE, Brown v. Board, Civil Rights Movement, desegregation, education

October 10, 2022 to October 14, 2022 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is hosting an

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Teaching Black Perspectives

September 29, 2022September 28, 2022 Julia W. Bernier 1619, 1619 Project, Black History, Black Perspectives, Critical Race Theory, CRT, pedagogy, teaching

Shortly before leaving office, the former president established the 1776 Commission. It was formed to control narratives about the history

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Historical Legacies, Black Canadian Slavery, and Institutional Histories

September 22, 2022September 22, 2022 Melissa N. Shaw Black women, Canada, slavery, Universities, Women

McGill University’s institutional history dramatically changes when it accounts for the fact that its founder, James McGill, was an enslaver

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Historicizing Black Left Feminism in Prerevolutionary Cuba

September 21, 2022September 14, 2022 Takkara Brunson Black Left Feminism, Black women, Cuba, feminism, Women

In April 1925, white feminist leaders invited tobacco stemmer Inocencia Valdés to speak before delegates of the Second National Women’s

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