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The Problem with Baltimore

March 22, 2024March 21, 2024 Anthony Smooth police brutality, racism, slavery, urban history

In 2015, Harvard economists Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren did a study on how the socioeconomic conditions of the neighborhoods

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Black Women’s Activism and the Long 1960s: A CBFS Interview

March 14, 2024March 11, 2024 Lucien Baskin Activism, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Resistance

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

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Atlanta’s Black Libraries and the Push for Black Voters

March 12, 2024March 3, 2024 Madison Ingram Activism, Black women, South

After a federal court ruling invalidated Georgia’s all-white primary in 1946, there was a huge push to form a coalition

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Global Black Thought: A New Academic Journal

March 11, 2024March 10, 2024 AAIHS Editors black intellectual history, black intellectual tradition, global black thought

The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is excited to announce the launch of GLOBAL BLACK THOUGHT, a new academic

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Announcing the 2024 AAIHS Award Winners

March 8, 2024March 4, 2024 AAIHS Editors #AAIHS2024

We are pleased to announce the 2024 AAIHS award winners–winners of the Pauli Murray Book Prize, the Maria Stewart Journal

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