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African American Presidential Politics and the Black Radical Imagination

April 30, 2019May 6, 2019 E. James West Activism, black politics, Black Power, electoral politics, Politics, Trumpism, voting

In March 1969, at a grade school in Washington, D.C., an eclectic audience gathered to celebrate the inauguration of comedian

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Frederick Douglass and a Diplomacy of Blackness

April 23, 2019April 22, 2019 Ronald Angelo Johnson #DouglassForward, Diplomacy, Frederick Douglass, Haiti

*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each

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Frederick Douglass’s Black Activism

April 22, 2019April 22, 2019 P. Gabrielle Foreman #DouglassForward, Activism, black intellectual history, Black political thought, black politics, Frederick Douglass, race, Resistance, slavery

*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each

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Black Women’s Anti-War and Anti-Colonial Activism

April 18, 2019August 12, 2022 AAIHS Editors antiwar activism, Black Power, Black women, black women's internationalism

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

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The Race of Disaster: Black Communities and the Crisis in Puerto Rico

April 17, 2019August 12, 2022 Hilda Lloréns African Diaspora, capitalism, Puerto Rico, Race and Economic History, Racial Capitalism

In this post, looking at the lives of Afro-Puerto Rican coastal foragers, I problematize the “disaster capitalism” orthodoxy, to probe

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