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Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago

September 13, 2018September 18, 2018 Teona Williams Activism, Chicago, environment, Great Migration, Migration

Towering skyscrapers dotting the Lake Michigan coastline, “snowy winds,” “blistering suns,” and roaring streets described what Richard Wright aptly called

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‘Stoolpigeons’ and the Treacherous Terrain of Freedom Fighting

September 13, 2018September 16, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly Activism, Black radicalism

On May 15, 2018, Newsweek published a story entitled, “CIA Reveals Name of Former Spy in JFK Files—And He’s Still

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Pan-Africanism: A New Book on the History of a Global Movement

September 12, 2018September 16, 2018 Keisha N. Blain African Diaspora, black politics, Black Power, Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, Pan-Africanism, W.E.B. Du Bois

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

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Online Roundtable: Keisha N. Blain’s ‘Set the World on Fire’

September 10, 2018October 18, 2018 AAIHS Editors Activism, black internationalism, black politics, Black women, black women's internationalism, Politics, Set the World on Fire

September 24-28, 2018 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of

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An Exceptional Case? Problematizing Soviet Anti-Racism

September 10, 2018September 16, 2018 Maxim Matusevich anti, Black Europe, Black Europe Series, black internationalism, black politics, Black radicalism

*This post is part of our new blog series on Black Europe. This series, edited by Kira Thurman and Anne-Marie Angelo, explores what it means to

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