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“Left Exposed to View!”: Black Women and Sexualized Violence

May 11, 2018May 15, 2018 Trimiko Melancon lynching, police brutality, police violence, Racial Violence, Resistance, sexual violence

In May 1962, Malcolm X delivered a commanding speech with his now infamous lines regarding the positionality of Black women:

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Online Roundtable: Ula Taylor’s The Promise of Patriarchy

May 10, 2018May 26, 2018 AAIHS Editors #PromiseofPatriarchy, Black women, Nation of Islam, religion

May 21-25, 2018 Black Perspectives is collaborating with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights (JCHR)* to host a roundtable on Ula Y. Taylor’s

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Progressive Movements and the Importance of Failure

May 10, 2018May 13, 2018 Austin McCoy black politics, black protest, civil rights, Resistance

Mary Frances Berry’s History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times could not have arrived

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Langston’s Salvation: A New Book on the Religious Thought of Langston Hughes

May 7, 2018May 13, 2018 J. T. Roane Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, poetry, religion

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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The Role of Water in African American History

May 4, 2018May 13, 2018 Tyler Parry slave trade

Flint, Michigan continues to confront a water crisis that, by all accounts, is a human tragedy. In 2014, the state of

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