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Black Germans and New Forms of Resistance

May 17, 2021June 5, 2021 Tiffany Florvil Black German, Germany, mourning

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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Black Resistance from Augusta to BLM

May 11, 2021June 5, 2021 John Hayes and Nefertiti Robinson Black Power, Civil Rights Movement, police brutality, police violence

When our work began in December 2018, we sought to confront misinformation and erasure surrounding the “riot” of May 11-12,

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Remembering Hubert Harrison, the Father of Harlem Radicalism

April 27, 2021April 27, 2021 Jeffrey B. Perry anti-capitalism, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, social justice

Hubert Harrison (April 27, 1883-December 17, 1927) was a brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and radical political activist. Historian Joel A. Rogers, in

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The Connected Histories of #StopAAPIHate and #BlackLivesMatter

April 21, 2021April 20, 2021 Owen Walsh Afro-Asia, black lives matter, Racial Violence

The murder of six women of Asian descent and two other victims in Atlanta by a white male gunman precipitated

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Sounds of Freedom: The Music of Black Liberation

April 13, 2021April 11, 2021 AAIHS Editors Black Power, music

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black

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