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Rosa Parks on Police Brutality: The Speech We Never Heard

January 23, 2020January 23, 2020 Say Burgin Activism, black politics, black protest, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, police brutality, police violence

In 1965, Rosa Parks would have had a lot to say about police brutality. By then, she had left Alabama

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The Black Athlete in the Freedom Struggle

December 3, 2019November 30, 2019 AAIHS Editors Activism, black intellectual history, black protest, Politics, race, sports

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

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The “Mock Revolution” at Mosinee: On The Racism of Anti-Communism in the US

November 20, 2019November 16, 2019 Denise Lynn black politics, capitalism, Communism, Communist Party, Politics, Racial Violence, social justice, white supremacy

  For most of the last one hundred and fifty years, anti-communism has been a defining aspect of American political

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Online Forum: Researching, Teaching, and Embodying the Black Diaspora

November 4, 2019November 4, 2019 AAIHS Editors #WorkingtheBlackDiaspora, African Diaspora, education, pedagogy, teaching

November 11–15, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on researching, teaching,

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Blood, Sweat, and Tears: A New Book on the History of Black College Football

October 25, 2019October 23, 2019 J. T. Roane civil rights, HBCU history, integration, segregation, sports

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

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