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Policing Black Lives: A New Book on State Violence in Canada

October 10, 2017October 14, 2017 Julie Hawks Canada, police brutality, police violence

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

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Black Death and the Possibilities for Diasporic Solidarity

October 10, 2017October 16, 2017 Nicole Jackson Activism, African Diaspora, Black Europe, black internationalism, police violence

In the aftermath of Mike Brown’s 2014 death, comparatively small Black populations in London, Berlin and Amsterdam spearheaded solidarity marches

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Vegetarianism and Organic Food in Black Communities

October 6, 2017October 9, 2017 Joshua Clark Davis Activism, Black Power, food, health, Nation of Islam

Vegetarianism is more visible and widespread today in the United States than it has ever been. But the popular image

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Memory, Experience, and Imagination in Black Religion

September 28, 2017September 30, 2017 Chernoh Sesay Jr. #AAIHSRoundtable, #NewWorld, black internationalism, black nationalism, Garveyism, Great Migration, Immigration, Nation of Islam, religion

This post is part of our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial

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Black Women, Agency, and the Civil War

September 22, 2017November 1, 2017 Karen Cook Bell Black women, emancipation, reconstruction, slavery, W.E.B. Du Bois

Throughout much of the twentieth century historians framed the Civil War as a political and military driven historical process, which

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