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Slavery, Family Separation, and the Ransom Case of John Weems

September 11, 2018September 16, 2018 Jessica Parr archives, race, slave trade, slavery

During the nineteenth century, several state laws prohibited, or restricted the ability of African Americans to testify against white people.

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Online Roundtable: Keisha N. Blain’s ‘Set the World on Fire’

September 10, 2018October 18, 2018 AAIHS Editors Activism, black internationalism, black politics, Black women, black women's internationalism, Politics, Set the World on Fire

September 24-28, 2018 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of

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An Exceptional Case? Problematizing Soviet Anti-Racism

September 10, 2018September 16, 2018 Maxim Matusevich anti, Black Europe, Black Europe Series, black internationalism, black politics, Black radicalism

*This post is part of our new blog series on Black Europe. This series, edited by Kira Thurman and Anne-Marie Angelo, explores what it means to

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On James H. Cone and Black Humanity

September 7, 2018September 10, 2018 Vernon Mitchell Jr. black intellectual history, James Cone Forum, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., religion, spirituality, white supremacy

*This post is part of our online forum on the Life and Legacy of Dr. James H. Cone. As an undergraduate student, I

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Remembering James Cone: Kind and Fierce Iconoclast

September 6, 2018September 8, 2018 Lilian Calles Barger black politics, Black Power, freedom, James Cone Forum, liberation theology, Philosophy, religion

*This post is part of our online forum on the Life and Legacy of Dr. James H. Cone. The late theologian James Cone

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