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‘On the Books’: Machine Learning Jim Crow

September 11, 2020September 17, 2020 William Sturkey digital media, Jim Crow

In 1950, the scholar-activist Pauli Murray published an important book titled States’ Laws on Race and Color. Sponsored by the Women’s

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Online Forum: Eric Williams’ ‘Capitalism and Slavery’

September 10, 2020September 17, 2020 AAIHS Editors #CapitalismandSlavery

September 21–25, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), will host an online forum on

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W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History

September 3, 2020August 28, 2020 Edward Carson African Diaspora, black radical tradition, Black radicalism

In 2018, scholars celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of W.E.B. Du Bois via published essays, symposiums, and commemorative

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The History of Black College Football

September 2, 2020September 5, 2020 Joshua Crutchfield Jim Crow, race, Resistance

Reflecting on his time as a member of the Clark College (now Clark Atlanta University) football team, journalist Eric “Ric”

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‘Ten Days in Harlem’: An Interview with Historian Simon Hall

August 31, 2020September 7, 2020 Say Burgin African Diaspora, black internationalism, Cuba, Resistance

In today’s piece, blogger Say Burgin interviews historian Simon Hall, a former Fox International Fellow at Yale, is currently Professor of

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