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CFP: Black Women’s Activism in the Diaspora

February 15, 2024February 6, 2024 AAIHS Editors Activism, African Diaspora, black internationalism, Black women

Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), invites blog posts for an online forum

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Philadelphia’s ‘Black Shining Prince’

February 13, 2024February 9, 2024 Menika Dirkson Activism, education, Philadelphia

Securely tucked away in the Print Department of The Library Company of Philadelphia’s collection of over 100,000 photographs, maps, drawings,

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On Transnational Black Feminism

January 31, 2024January 29, 2024 Keisha N. Blain black feminism, black nationalism, garvey, UNIA

Today’s post was originally published on April 14, 2017. Black women and other women of color have been historically marginalized

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What is “Freedom” in the Black Freedom Struggle?

January 11, 2024January 5, 2024 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. Activism, black protest, black radical tradition

Freedom is at the center of the Black freedom struggle. The Strange Career of Jim Crow, The Strange Careers of the Jim

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The Controversy of the Without Sanctuary Museum Exhibit

December 4, 2023December 1, 2023 Menika Dirkson Jim Crow, lynching, museums

On May 22, 1917, the lynching of Ell Persons, a Black woodcutter, occurred in a carnival-type setting in Memphis, Tennessee.

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