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Reflections on 2015

December 12, 2015December 12, 2015 Noelle Trent

Here at AAIHS, my 2015 blog postings began with a reflection on remarks made by Chief Supreme Court Justice Roger

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Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the 1920s: An Interview with Shannon King

December 10, 2015December 9, 2015 Keisha N. Blain black politics, Harlem, Politics

This month, I interviewed Shannon King about his new book, Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway? Community Politics and Grassroots Activism

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#mizzousyllabus

Here is a list of readings that educators can use to broach conversations in the classroom about the events immediately

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Black-Jewish Nostalgia and Black Lives Matter

November 7, 2015 Chris Cameron

The following guest post was written by David Weinfeld. He is a sessional instructor at the Centre for the Study

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When Cops Kill the Terrorists Win

October 28, 2015October 28, 2015 Guy Emerson Mount #BlackLivesMatter, Activism, black internationalism, Black Panthers, black politics, black protest, capitalism, Chicago, Ferguson, imperialism, W.E.B. Du Bois

  On June 15, 1969 the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover, famously declared that the

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