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#AAIHS2020–Call for Papers: The Black Radical Tradition

June 3, 2019June 2, 2019 AAIHS Editors

#AAIHS2020 The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)’s Fifth Annual Conference The Black Radical Tradition March 6-7, 2020 University of

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Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: A New Book in Civil Rights History

May 31, 2019June 4, 2019 J. T. Roane black politics, black protest, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, economic justice, Jim Crow, labor, 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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Roberta Elder: The Case of a Black Woman Serial Killer

May 28, 2019May 28, 2019 Denise Lynn Black women, Gender, police violence, violence, white supremacy

The killings may have started as early as 1938, but no one suspected murder until Reverend William M. Elder died

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Black Queer Theater as Love Praxis: An Interview with Jeremy O’Brian

May 28, 2019May 25, 2019 J. T. Roane art, Black church, black feminism, black politics, interview, LGBT, religion, theater

In today’s post, senior editor J.T. Roane interviews, Jeremy O’Brian who is currently a Teaching Fellow at The New School’s

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Presumed Criminal: A New Book on Black Youth and the Justice System in New York

May 13, 2019May 13, 2019 J. T. Roane criminal justice system, mass incarceration, New York, urban history, youth

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

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