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Kim F. Hall Chair of English and Professor of Africana Studies at Barnard College Kim F. Hall is the Lucyle

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Celebrating Two Years at AAIHS

January 18, 2016January 18, 2016 Chris Cameron

Today we celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., a man of immeasurable courage and vision. We

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Sara Baartman, Say Her Name: A Bicentennial Anniversary

January 16, 2016January 15, 2016 Janell Hobson #sayhername, South Africa

One of the stranger stories that broke with the new year was the report (now discredited) of pop star Beyoncé writing

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Thinking About the ‘X’

December 12, 2015December 14, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson Afrxlatinidad, Caribbean, colonial America, empire, Latin America, slave trade, slavery

As the year winds down, I find myself, like my AAIHS colleague Noelle Trent, reflecting on 2015, on conversations that

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Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the 1920s: An Interview with Shannon King

December 10, 2015December 9, 2015 Keisha N. Blain black politics, Harlem, Politics

This month, I interviewed Shannon King about his new book, Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway? Community Politics and Grassroots Activism

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