Search Results for: civil rights era

Colluding to Cripple the National Negro Labor Council

November 9, 2022November 7, 2022 Tony Pecinovsky Black radicalism, Communism, CPUSA, labor, Red Scare

In late October 1951, one of the most important African American trade union initiatives in U.S. history was launched. “The

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Black Journalists and The Great Migration

November 8, 2022October 29, 2022 Tichaona Chinyelu black intellectual history, Jim Crow, literature, Resistance

Coined in 1897, the phrase “all the news that’s fit to print” is a motto of the newspaper industry designed

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Queen Elizabeth, Colonization, and Global Perceptions

October 31, 2022October 29, 2022 Mickell Carter black internationalism, Pan-Africanism

The news of the passion of Britain’s longest reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, on September 8th sparked mixed feelings in

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Skate Culture and Black Women Rollin’

October 28, 2022October 24, 2022 Lauren Rorie #Bounce, Black Culture, Black women, music, Skating

This post is part of our forum on Bounce Music. Toes, heels, slides, and glides, it’s all about the beat! Black

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Online Forum–Bounce Music

October 20, 2022October 20, 2022 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #Bounce, dance, freedom, Liberation, music, Performance

October 24, 2022 to October 29, 2022 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is hosting an

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