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On The Sixtieth Anniversary of the March on Washington

August 28, 2023August 28, 2023 Robert Greene II civil rights

In recent years, memorialization of the Civil Rights era from the 1950s and 1960s has taken on a new urgency

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Online Forum–Hip Hop at 50

August 10, 2023August 10, 2023 AAIHS Editors #HipHop50, #HipHopSeries, hip hop

August 14, 2023 to August 25, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting

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The Defender and Chicago’s Built Environment

May 25, 2023May 23, 2023 Ray Dinsmore black press, book review, Built Environment, Chicago, Chicago Defender, Ebony Magazine

In A House for the Struggle: The Black Press and the Built Environment in Chicago, author E. James West explores the

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Black Resistance and Lynching Memory: An Interview with Mari N. Crabtree Part I

May 2, 2023August 20, 2023 Menika Dirkson Racial Violence, racism, white supremacy

Black Perspectives’ regular contributor, Menika Dirkson, interviews Mari N. Crabtree on her most recent book publication, My Soul Is a

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Howard Thurman and the Problem of Faithlessness

April 18, 2023April 16, 2023 D'Ondre Swails #AAIHSRoundtable, #HowardThurman, Civil Rights Movement

This post is part of our forum on Howard Thurman and the Civil Rights Movement. In 1949, Christian mystic and theologian Howard

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