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Readings on Transnational African American History

January 8, 2019January 29, 2019 Nico Slate and Clayton Vaughn-Roberson Activism, black internationalism, Politics

African American History has always transcended borders of many kinds, yet historians have not always recognized the transnational and global

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Top 10 of 2018 – #1 – Prison Abolition Syllabus 2.0

December 28, 2018January 29, 2019 Guest Poster #TopTen

*Editor’s Note: As the year comes to a close, we’re featuring the ten most popular pieces we published on Black Perspectives. This

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‘New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition’: A New Book on Black Thinkers in the US and Abroad

November 15, 2018November 19, 2018 Melissa N. Shaw black intellectual history

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Slavery and Memory in Charleston, South Carolina

October 11, 2018October 17, 2018 Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders Resistance, slavery, South

The familiar refrain after the Emmanuel AME massacre on June 17, 2015, was that Dylann Roof, the murderer, was not

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African Americans and the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement

October 5, 2018October 8, 2018 Jessica Ann Levy Activism, African Diaspora, black internationalism, black protest, racism, Resistance, South Africa

The cartoon appeared in the October 1949 issue of New Africa, the monthly anti-imperial bulletin of the New York-based Council

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