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The Racist Origins of the Real ID Act

February 20, 2023February 19, 2023 Bea Abbott carceral state, Politics, race, racism

As of May 2023, a passport or driver’s license which proves legal residence in the U.S. will be needed to

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Reconsidering Black Reform Work in the Interwar Period: A Retrospective on Canaan, Dim and Far

February 10, 2023February 9, 2023 Adam Lee Cilli #CananDim, labor, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Courier, Urban League

This post is part of our online roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan, Dim and Far. Panic had taken hold

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Norman Lewis and the Responsibility of Presentness

January 18, 2023January 13, 2023 Clay Matlin #BlackIntellectualDemocracy, art, black intellectuals, democracy, Norman Lewis

This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. The general consensus, scholarly and lay,

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James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, and the Ever-Deferred Dream

January 17, 2023January 17, 2023 Amy Kittelstrom #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackIntellectualDemocracy, black intellectual history

This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. Once Africans began being forced onto

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Online Forum–Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy

January 13, 2023January 11, 2023 AAIHS Editors #BlackIntellectualDemocracy, American Democracy, black intellectuals, democracy, intellectuals

January 16, 2023 to January 23, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an

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