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Civil Rights Organizations, the Black Press, and Ethnic Nationalist Movements in Africa

May 30, 2017June 2, 2017 Marius Kothor black nationalism, civil rights, colonialism, West Africa

As African societies began to break the shackles of colonial domination during the mid-twentieth century, African Americans looked to these

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The History and Significance of Kente Cloth in the Black Diaspora

May 22, 2017May 24, 2017 James Padilioni Jr African Diaspora, education

This spring thousands of college students will march across commencement stages to receive their degrees. Many of these students will

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The Art of Domination: On Decolonizing the Curriculum

May 16, 2017May 18, 2017 Jordanna Matlon education, education reform, racism, teaching

Those professors among us who teach from the perspective of the oppressed are often tasked with un-teaching what our students

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Online Roundtable: Gerald Horne’s Black Radical History

May 14, 2017June 5, 2017 AAIHS Editors #Horne

June 5–10, 2017 Black Perspectives is hosting an online roundtable on Gerald Horne’s wide-ranging scholarly contributions to African American history

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Coretta Scott King, The Archive, and Black Feminist Methods

May 11, 2017May 16, 2017 David Stein archives, black feminism, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr.

For someone so prominent, learning about Coretta Scott King’s life and labors apart from those of her late husband is

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