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Online Roundtable: Gerald Horne’s Black Radical History

May 14, 2017June 5, 2017 AAIHS Editors #Horne

June 5–10, 2017 Black Perspectives is hosting an online roundtable on Gerald Horne’s wide-ranging scholarly contributions to African American history

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Race and Civil Rights Dramas in Hollywood

March 24, 2017March 28, 2017 Justin Gomer civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, film

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of Stanley Kramer’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, starring the iconic Sidney Poitier. During the

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Civil Rights Activist, Poet, Bookseller: An Interview with Charlie Cobb

February 27, 2017March 1, 2017 Joshua Clark Davis Activism, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement

This is an edited excerpt of an interview I conducted with Charlie Cobb in October 2015. Perhaps best known as

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Civil Rights and Healthcare: Remembering Simkins v. Cone (1963)

February 4, 2017February 7, 2017 Ezelle Sanford III civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, law

Upon her release from L. Richardson Memorial Hospital’s maternity ward in Greensboro, North Carolina, my grandmother, Ann Wilson Scales, walked

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“Reflections Unheard”: A New Film on Black Women and Civil Rights

January 19, 2017March 14, 2017 Michael T. Barry Jr. #FilmFeatures, Black women, film series

This post is part of a new blog series that announces the release of new films in African American History

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