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Black Resistance to Segregation in the Nineteenth Century

July 5, 2018July 9, 2018 Jessica Parr Black women, law, New York, segregation

In 1852, the Third Avenue Railroad Company was founded. It ran between City Hall and 62nd Street in Manhattan. Its

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Black Women, History, and the Democratic Party

July 3, 2018July 9, 2018 Millington Bergeson-Lockwood Activism, black politics, Black women, electoral politics, Jim Crow

On May 30, 2018, Axios published an article announcing, “Black women feel slighted by the Democrats.” The article explains how African

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Online Forum: Remembering Sandra Bland

July 2, 2018July 9, 2018 AAIHS Editors #SandraBlandForum, #sayhername, Sandra Bland

*July 9-13, 2018 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on Sandra Bland

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There Is No NFL Without Black Labor

June 19, 2018June 23, 2018 Louis Moore black protest, Colin Kaepernick, Resistance, sports

“We don’t want four boys from Oakland telling us how to run our stadium,” Ray Schuessler defiantly demanded in his

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Langston Hughes on Film: An Interview with Darren Canady and Randal Maurice Jelks

June 12, 2018June 16, 2018 Imani A. Wadud archives, art, black intellectual history, blackness, film, Harlem Renaissance, music

In today’s post, University of Kansas PhD Candidate, Imani A. Wadud, interviews Darren Canady and Randal Maurice Jelks on their new

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