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The Fight for Black Freedom Transcends National Borders

March 17, 2022March 16, 2022 Shaun Armstead Dorthy Height, Marcus Garvey, Mary McLeod Bethune, National Council of Negro Women, UNIA

This article first appeared in Made By History. The original can be accessed here. In a recent news conference, Senate Minority Leader

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Black Beauty Queens and Global Representational Politics

March 16, 2022March 15, 2022 Mickell Carter Beauty, Beauty Standards, Black Beauty, Internationalism, Miss Black USA

This article first appeared in Made By History. The original can be accessed here. In January, Cheslie Kryst, who was known as

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Black Internationalism, Black Studies, and the Challenge to Hemispheric Jim Crow

March 14, 2022March 13, 2022 Kaysha Corinealdi black intellectual history, black internationalism, Jim Crow

This article first appeared in Made By History. The original can be accessed here. Across the country, state legislatures and school boards

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The African American Origins of Modern Asylum

March 9, 2022March 8, 2022 Sean Gallagher asylum, Canada, Diplomacy, escape, Haiti, Mexico

Harriet Tubman, living in Ontario, Canada for most of 1851 to 1861, told an abolitionist interviewing fugitive slaves north of

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