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Beulah Richardson Charges Genocide

March 21, 2019August 12, 2022 Denise Lynn Activism, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Racial Violence, Resistance

In 1951, William Patterson, the national secretary of the Civil Rights Congress (CRC), a communist affiliated legal organization, presented the

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Online Forum: The 20th Anniversary of Komozi Woodard’s ‘A Nation Within A Nation’

March 18, 2019March 31, 2019 AAIHS Editors #NationWithinANation

April 1-5, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum celebrating the 20-year

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Shirley Graham Du Bois and Black Liberation

March 13, 2019August 12, 2022 Annette Joseph-Gabriel #ShirleyGrahamDuBois, Activism, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, black radical tradition, Black women

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Shirley Graham Du Bois to recognize the anniversary of her passing in March 1977. The

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The Historical Significance of Black Queer Films

March 7, 2019March 9, 2019 Emerald Rutledge Black film, Black Queers, blackness, Essex Hemphill, hip hop, Marlon Riggs, sexuality

In the context of the reemergence of Black nationalist rhetoric and ideologies in hip-hop music in the late 1980s and

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Online Forum: Shirley Graham Du Bois

March 4, 2019March 10, 2019 AAIHS Editors #ShirleyGrahamDuBois

March 11-15, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on Shirley Graham

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