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Shades of Black: Ethnic Diversity in Black American Religious Life

February 15, 2022February 14, 2022 Kijan Bloomfield #AAIHSRoundtable, #PewResearchForum, race, religion

*This post is part of our online forum with the Pew Research Center. Church Avenue is a vibrant commercial artery

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Why Black AIDS History Matters

February 7, 2022February 6, 2022 Dan Royles Activism, black lives matter, black protest

As we enter the third year of the Covid-19 pandemic, it might be easy to forget that in early 2020

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Call for Submissions: The Gary National Political Convention of 1972

February 4, 2022February 3, 2022 Robert Greene II Amiri Baraka, Black National Convention, Black Politicians, black politics, Gary

Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), invites blog posts centering on the Gary

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Until I Am Free: Teaching Fannie Lou Hamer Past and Present

February 3, 2022February 2, 2022 Nicole M. Gipson black politics, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Fannie Lou Hamer, SNCC

  What we don’t know about the real life of the civil rights leader, Fannie Lou Hamer could fill a

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A Review of 2021 Books in Black Intellectual History

February 1, 2022January 31, 2022 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, Resistance

The following list is a sampling of books on African American history that were released during 2021. All of them

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