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Black Women’s Anti-War and Anti-Colonial Activism

April 18, 2019August 12, 2022 AAIHS Editors antiwar activism, Black Power, Black women, black women's internationalism

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

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Online Forum: The Futures of Frederick Douglass

April 15, 2019August 12, 2022 AAIHS Editors #DouglassForward

April 22-26, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on innovative approaches

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Medgar Evers’s Legacy of Organizing in Mississippi

April 15, 2019August 12, 2022 William Sturkey Activism, black politics, black protest, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow, Politics

Although Medgar Evers is one of the most widely recognized figures of the Civil Rights Movement, many people do not

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Making ‘A Nation Within A Nation’: An Interview with Komozi Woodard

April 5, 2019August 12, 2022 Say Burgin #AAIHSRoundtable, Activism, black intellectual history, Black Panther Party, black politics, Black Power, black protest, Civil Rights Movement, nation, race

*This post is part of our online roundtable celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the publication of Komozi Woodard’s A Nation Within

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Nation Time: ‘A Nation Within A Nation’ At Twenty

April 4, 2019August 12, 2022 Michael O. West black politics, Black Power, book review, race

*This post is part of our online roundtable celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the publication of Komozi Woodard’s A Nation Within

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