Online Roundtable: Quito Swan’s ‘Pauulu’s Diaspora’
June 28th-July 2nd, 2021 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of
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A More Radical Vision for Palestinian Self-determination
Nearly fifty years ago, at the 1972 National Black Political Convention (NBPC) in Gary, Indiana, Douglas E. Moore of the
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The Reconstruction Origins of Black Wall Street
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre targeted and destroyed the city’s prosperous Greenwood District, home to a vibrant economy of Black-owned businesses that
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Life Lessons from Georgetown’s Basketball Coach John Thompson
John Thompson Jr. often said, “I tell everyone I speak two languages fluently—English and profanity.” He used language and stories
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Black Germans and New Forms of Resistance
In her book In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, scholar Christina Sharpe described her concept of “wake work” as “a
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