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Before the Central Park Five, There Was the Trenton Six

July 3, 2019June 21, 2019 Denise Lynn civil rights, Communism, Communist Party, Jim Crow, NAACP, police brutality, police violence, prisons, race, racism

The four-part docuseries When They See Us, directed by Ava DuVernay, has brought attention to the notorious case of the Central

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From Hashtag Activist to Street Protester: An Interview with Bree Newsome Bass

July 2, 2019July 2, 2019 Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt #BlackOrganizingToday, Activism, black lives matter, Black Power, black protest, black radical tradition, Black women, Resistance

This post is part of our Black Organizing Today Series. This series, edited by Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt, consists of interviews

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Inculcated Forgetfulness at a New England Port

June 20, 2019June 13, 2019 Lise Breen abolitionism, Activism, black politics, black protest, Civil War, Frederick Douglass, Post-Civil War, race, racism, slave trade, slavery, South

In the fall of 1865, Frederick Douglass riveted a small New England audience for more than two hours. Long forgotten,

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Towards an Antifascist Pedagogy

June 18, 2019June 18, 2019 Guy Emerson Mount antifascism, pedagogy, racism, Resistance, South

On February 19th, 2019 an interracial group of socialists gathered at a local coffee shop in rural Alabama. The coffee

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Reflections on African American Intellectual History

June 13, 2019June 9, 2019 Pero G. Dagbovie #AAIHSRoundtable, #RethinkingAAIH, black intellectual history, black politics, Black women, black women scholars, education, race

*This post is part of our online forum titled “What is African American Intellectual History?“ In the mid-1970s when the

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