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Reflections of the 60th Anniversary of Urban Uprisings in America

October 17, 2024October 18, 2024 Heather Ann Thompson UrbanRebellions

This post is part of our forum on the Urban Rebellions of the 1960s On this momentous 60th anniversary of

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How the 1969 Uprising Challenged Police Brutality in Las Vegas

October 14, 2024October 12, 2024 Tyler Parry Las Vegas, UrbanRebellions

This post is part of our forum on the Urban Rebellions of the 1960s On the evening of October 5,

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Online Forum-Urban Rebellions in the 1960s

October 11, 2024October 11, 2024 AAIHS Editors black protest, Resistance, UrbanRebellions

October 14-17, 2024 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum that

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A Life of Revolutionary Struggle: An Interview with Dr. Vicki Alexander

October 2, 2024October 2, 2024 Tiana U. Wilson black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Radicalism

In today’s post, Tiana U. Wilson, assistant professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, interviews Dr. Vicki Alexander on

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A Black Woman’s Activism in Postwar (West) Germany

September 18, 2024September 18, 2024 Silke Hackenesch #BlackWomensActivismInTheDiaspora, Adoption, Black Family, WWII

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women’s Activism in the African Diaspora.”  In the aftermath of the

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