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Introducing “Black Perspectives”

December 11, 2016December 10, 2016 Keisha N. Blain

Dear readers, Thank you all for enthusiastically supporting the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS). The blog has been doing

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Freedom as Marronage as Anti-capitalism

December 8, 2016January 21, 2017 Patrick Nichols Jamaica, marronage

On December 23, 1739, Captain Quao of the Windward Maroons penned an “X” and swore a blood oath to formally

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Confronting School Choice, Part II: The 1980s in Review

December 6, 2016December 5, 2016 Lindsey E. Jones education reform, NAACP

The issue that occasions this post is the NAACP’s recent call for a moratorium on charter schools until the charter

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Confronting School Choice, Part I: The NAACP’s Charter Moratorium and the Backlash

December 5, 2016December 4, 2016 Lindsey E. Jones civil rights, education reform

On October 15, 2016, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) announced that its Board of Directors

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The Audacity of “Nope”: Why a Trump Presidency Is No Surprise

December 5, 2016March 17, 2017 Trimiko Melancon 2016 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, W.E.B. Du Bois

After the 2008 election of Barack H. Obama, the 44th President of the United States, it became customary for some

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