Alphaeus Hunton: The Fight for Equality and Liberation during WWII
It has been argued that the Communist Party, USA (CPUSA) neglected the struggle for African American equality during World War
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#AAIHS2022: Call for Papers–A Virtual Conference
The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)’s Seventh Annual Conference Everyday Practices, Memory Making, and Local Spaces March 11-12, 2022
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The Black Athlete and the Vote
In 1946, Joe Louis, the heavyweight champion of the world, stood in front of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare
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George Hackett, Baltimore’s Birthright Citizen
*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study
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Black Health Care, Black Art: A Texas Perspective
Galveston, Texas, may best be remembered as the provenance of Juneteenth. However, in the universe of Black history, the island
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