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Free the Land– A New Book About the Republic of New Afrika

July 3, 2020June 28, 2020 AAIHS Editors Black Power, Black radicalism, Resistance

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

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Power to the People: An Interview with Paul Ortiz and Johanna Fernandez

July 2, 2020June 28, 2020 AAIHS Editors African Diaspora, black nationalism, Black Panther Party, Puerto Rican history, Resistance

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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A Call to Action to Catholic University Communities

June 24, 2020June 23, 2020 AAIHS Editors black lives matter

We, faculty leaders, program directors, and department chairs of African American / Africana Studies units at Catholic Universities and Colleges,

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Power to the People: Attica and Radical Reconstruction

June 5, 2020June 5, 2020 Russell Rickford carceral state, criminal justice system, mass incarceration, Resistance

This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books, 2016). Today

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Attica Means Fight Back: History and Storytelling as Resistance

June 3, 2020June 1, 2020 Danielle McGuire

This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books, 2016). Today

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