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Striving Toward Freedom and Black Pittsburgh

February 6, 2023February 4, 2023 Hettie Williams #AAIHSRoundtable, #CanaanDim, Activism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan, Dim and Far. Canaan, Dim and Far:

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Online Roundtable-Adam Lee Cilli’s ‘Canaan, Dim and Far’

February 3, 2023February 3, 2023 AAIHS Editors #CanaanDim, #Roundtable, book review, citizenship, Pittsburgh

February 6–10, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan,

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Ye, Trump, and the Antisemitic Alliance

February 2, 2023January 30, 2023 David Weinfeld Black Celebrity, Black Hebrew Israelites, Black-Jewish Relations, Kanye West, Trump

A Black rapper, a Latino white supremacist, and former president sat down for dinner. It sounds like a bad joke,

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Dr. King and the Foundation of a Black Intellectual-Activist

January 16, 2023January 15, 2023 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. #BlackIntellectualDemocracy, black intellectual history, Black radicalism

This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King,

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The Morning After: Black Women and the March on Washington

December 12, 2022December 11, 2022 Kyle Brooks Black women, Civil Rights Movement

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom stands apart as one of the most well-known events of the modern

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