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The Pre-History of President Clinton’s Racist (and Antiracist) Liberalism

May 21, 2016May 20, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Barack Obama, electoral politics

About a week ago, former President Bill Clinton once again had to defend his 1994 crime bill at an event

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#AAIHS2022 The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)’s Seventh Annual Conference   Conference Theme: Everyday Practices, Memory Making, and Local

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Teaching Religion, Politics, and Civil Rights

March 7, 2016March 6, 2016 Chernoh Sesay Jr. Activism, black politics, black protest, civil rights, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., teaching

With undergraduates I recently explored the complexity of thought among several Civil Rights writers and activists. During our conversation, students

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Black Funeral Directors and the Black Lives Matter Movement

January 24, 2016January 24, 2016 Guest Poster #BlackLivesMatter, Baltimore, Mississippi

Today’s guest post comes from Edwin Jackson, a licensed funeral director and embalmer in Maryland and Oklahoma. Born and raised in

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#MLKsoundtrack 2016: A Civil Rights Soundtrack

January 19, 2016January 19, 2016 Rhon Manigault-Bryant civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr., music

It is not uncommon for AAIHS bloggers to provide syllabi of resources on a particular subject. I am diverging from

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