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Black Women’s Activism through History and Poetry

October 2, 2023September 7, 2023 Cathleen D. Cahill Black women, Carrie Williams Clifford, Club women, freedom, poetry

“Somehow, we’ve weathered and witnessed a nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished.” -Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb  Those

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Arturo Schomburg, Black Studies, and Social Change

September 28, 2023September 15, 2023 DJ Polite Arturo Schomburg, Black History, Black Studies, John Henrik Clarke

Around 1930, a fifteen-year-old John Henrik Clarke travelled to New York City, New York, anxious to meet Arturo Schomburg at

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Deprovincializing Black Studies and Translating Blackness Beyond Borders

September 11, 2023September 7, 2023 Robin D. G. Kelley #Roundtable, #TranslatingBlackness, Arturo Schomburg, Black Studies, book review, Frederick Douglass, History, Transnationalism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness. Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness is a

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The Times-Picayune’s Historical Use of the N-Word

September 8, 2023August 25, 2023 Bala Baptiste Jim Crow, MEDIA, Newspapers, white supremacy

The News Orleans daily newspaper the Times-Picayune, since its founding on January 25, 1837, and throughout 1914, when it merged

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Blog Announcements: Meet the Editing Team!

September 1, 2023August 27, 2023 AAIHS Editors

The editing team of Black Perspectives is excited to begin the next academic year! Thank you for supporting us over

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