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2017 in Review: Top Posts on Black Women’s History

December 28, 2017January 2, 2018 AAIHS Editors

In 2017, Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), featured a wide variety of pieces, including articles that

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From Head Shops to Whole Foods: A New Book on Activist Entrepreneurs

December 18, 2017December 23, 2017 Julie Hawks African American bookstores

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom

December 8, 2017December 11, 2017 Keisha N. Blain black feminism, black nationalism, Black women, Pan-Africanism

This is an excerpt from Keisha N. Blain’s Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle

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The FBI and the Mischaracterization of Bayard Rustin

December 7, 2017December 11, 2017 Nishani Frazier Activism, Historical Memory, Resistance

On November 22, Muckrock.com published a disturbing article claiming that Bayard Rustin “was working for the CIA.”  The essay created

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African American Freedom and the Illusive “Forty Acres and a Mule”

November 16, 2017November 17, 2017 Karen Cook Bell economic justice, landownership, race, racism, reconstruction, Resistance, South

On August 18, 2016, the United Nations Working Group on Experts of People of African Descent determined that the history

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