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Cartoonist Jackie Ormes’ Commentary on Black Life

January 5, 2018January 8, 2018 Matthew Teutsch black politics, Black women, civil rights, lynching, Racial Violence, segregation

Writing in the Chicago Defender in 1948, Langston Hughes proclaimed, “If I were marooned on a desert island . . . I

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Online Forum: A History of Student Activism

December 30, 2017January 8, 2018 AAIHS Editors #StudentActivismForum, civil rights, student activism, youth

January 8–12, 2018 A line of African American students walking through a crowd of white boys in Clinton, TN, during

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The Race to Preserve African American Radio

December 21, 2017December 27, 2017 Joshua Clark Davis Black Power, Civil Rights Movement

What are the sounds of African American history? And how can we preserve those sounds? Those are the central questions

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The Legend of the Black Mecca: A New Book on Politics and Class in Atlanta

December 16, 2017December 21, 2017 Julie Hawks Atlanta, gentrification, poverty

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 Women and Economic Justice in St. Louis: An Interview with Keona Ervin

December 2, 2017December 6, 2017 Candace Borders Black women, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, economic justice, Jim Crow, Resistance

In today’s post, Candace Borders, a recent graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, interviews Keona K. Ervin on her

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