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The Struggle for Voting Rights and the Poor People’s Campaign

October 26, 2018November 3, 2018 AAIHS Editors black protest, Black women, carceral state, Jim Crow, voting

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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Black Rights and Black Citizenship in Antebellum Baltimore

October 2, 2018October 3, 2018 Adam McNeil Activism, archives, Baltimore, freedom, race, racism

Throughout my life, I have grappled with the precarious and vulnerable nature of Black life in the United States and

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Gloria Richardson and the Struggle for Black Liberation

September 21, 2018September 25, 2018 Joseph R. Fitzgerald Activism, Black Power, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, race, Resistance

This is an excerpt from Joseph R. Fitzgerald’s The Struggle is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation, scheduled to be published

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The Liberatory Potential of Black Theology

September 4, 2018September 8, 2018 Wende Marshall James Cone Forum, liberation theology, religion, spirituality

*This post is part of our online forum on the Life and Legacy of Dr. James H. Cone. In the 1980s I was

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Comrades in the Struggle for Black Freedom: Gerald Horne and W.E.B. Du Bois

August 24, 2018September 2, 2018 Phillip Luke Sinitiere

*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by blogger Phillip

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