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Online Forum: Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee

October 1, 2018October 17, 2018 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, Activism, black politics, Black Power, black protest, Civil Rights Movement, police violence, racism, Resistance, Unseen Light

October 8-12, 2018 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a week-long online forum based

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Black Nationalist Women’s Political and Intellectual Labor

September 25, 2018October 1, 2018 Kennetta Hammond Perry Amy Ashwood Garvey, black nationalism, black women's internationalism, Set the World on Fire

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Set the World on Fire How does our historical understanding

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Prison Abolition Syllabus 2.0

September 8, 2018September 18, 2018 Guest Poster Political Prisoners, Prison Abolition, prisons

Even in prison, rebellions are contagious. In 2016, a national prison strike led us to compile the Prison Abolition Syllabus on

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James Baldwin and the 1980s: A New Book on the Iconic Writer’s Last Decade

May 2, 2018May 5, 2018 Phillip Luke Sinitiere black intellectual history, Gender

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

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Martin Luther King Jr. and the Grassroots Struggle in Memphis

April 6, 2018April 13, 2018 Charles W. McKinney Activism, Civil Rights Movement, Historical Memory, Martin Luther King Jr., Memphis, MLK and American Cities

*This post is part of our forum on Martin Luther King Jr.’s impact on American cities. People from around the world

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