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The Roots of Racial and Spatial Inequality

March 9, 2021March 19, 2021 Kimberley S. Johnson #AAIHSRoundtable, #RaceForProfit, capitalism, class, economic history, housing, race, racism, segregation, white supremacy

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ‘Race for Profit’ The cover of Businessweek’s February 13, 2013 issue

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2021 Finalists for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History

March 4, 2021March 3, 2021 AAIHS Editors

The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is pleased to announce the finalists for the fourth annual Pauli Murray Book

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Black Women Have Shaped Politics in Boston for Centuries

March 4, 2021March 3, 2021 Kabria Baumgartner

Kim Janey will probably vacate her position as president of the Boston City Council to become the city’s acting mayor.

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Martin Luther King Jr.’s Challenge to his Liberal Allies

February 22, 2021February 21, 2021 Jeanne Theoharis

“We do not need allies more devoted to order than to justice,” Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in the spring

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Audre Lorde And I Were Once Enemies

February 16, 2021February 15, 2021 Kenyon Farrow #AudreLorde, Activism, black feminism, Gender, white supremacy

Audre Lorde and I were once mortal enemies. At least that’s the way it seemed. In late 2004, I wrote

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