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The King of Atlanta: Martin Luther King Jr. and Public Memory

April 3, 2018April 7, 2018 Maurice J. Hobson Activism, Atlanta, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Historical Memory, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK and American Cities

*This post is part of our forum on Martin Luther King Jr.’s impact on American cities. On April 4th, the world

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Is Equality Enough?: Black Feminist Views of Justice

March 29, 2018April 2, 2018 Deva Woodly Activism, black lives matter, police brutality, police violence, Social Movements

*A version of this essay originally appeared on Public Seminar, as part of its Race/isms Book Forum on The Making

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Claudia Jones and Ending the Neglect of Black Women

March 26, 2018April 2, 2018 Denise Lynn black feminism, Black radicalism, Black women, Claudia Jones, Communism

With the onset of the Cold War and the U.S. government’s attacks on radicalism, the American Communist Party began to

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Online Forum: Martin Luther King Jr. and American Cities

March 25, 2018April 3, 2018 AAIHS Editors Martin Luther King Jr., MLK and American Cities

Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on Martin Luther King Jr. and American Cities. Organized

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Black Panther, Black Power, and the Black Nationalist Tradition

March 21, 2018March 26, 2018 Jordan X. Evans #BlackPanther, #comicsandrace, black nationalism, Black Panther Party, Black Power, Pan-Africanism

*This post is part of our new blog series on The World of the Black Panther. This series, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter

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