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The Historical Significance of Black Queer Films

March 7, 2019March 9, 2019 Emerald Rutledge Black film, Black Queers, blackness, Essex Hemphill, hip hop, Marlon Riggs, sexuality

In the context of the reemergence of Black nationalist rhetoric and ideologies in hip-hop music in the late 1980s and

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Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement

March 5, 2019March 9, 2019 Edward Dunsworth Activism, black politics, Politics, Resistance, South

As the primary setting for slavery, sharecropping, and racialized Southern rural poverty, agriculture has–for good reason–been principally portrayed as a

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Online Forum: Shirley Graham Du Bois

March 4, 2019March 10, 2019 AAIHS Editors #ShirleyGrahamDuBois

March 11-15, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on Shirley Graham

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2019 Finalists for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History

March 4, 2019March 9, 2019 AAIHS Editors

The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is pleased to announce the finalists for the second annual Pauli Murray Book Prize for

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Remembering Queen Mother Moore

March 1, 2019March 9, 2019 Shafeah M’Balia #QueenMotherMoore, Activism, African Diaspora, black feminism, black intellectual history, black nationalism, black protest, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Black women, Gender, Pan-Africanism, Politics

Today’s post is part of a week-long series featuring excerpts from a special issue on activist Queen Mother Audley Moore.

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