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Save the Date: Global Black Thought Webinars

July 17, 2025October 12, 2025 AAIHS Editors

Save the Dates: July 23 and July 30 at 2pm Eastern  The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) and the

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Black Mayors and the Battle Over Urban Leadership

April 14, 2025April 12, 2025 Travis Wright

In 1967, Richard Hatcher of Gary, Indiana, and Carl Stokes of Cleveland made history as two of the first Black

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The Grassroots Organizing of Black Women in the North before 1954

January 27, 2025January 19, 2025 Patricia Reid-Merritt #GeorgiaOfTheNorth, Black women, civil rights, Club women

This post is part of our online roundtable on Hettie V. Williams’s The Georgia of the North. Dr. Hettie V. Williams’s

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Online Forum-Urban Rebellions in the 1960s

October 11, 2024October 11, 2024 AAIHS Editors black protest, Resistance, UrbanRebellions

October 14-17, 2024 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum that

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“Before Brown”: A CBFS Interview

January 19, 2024January 18, 2024 Lucien Baskin black queer studies, CBFS, interview, military, WWII

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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