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Celebrating Black Intellectual History–Then and Now

October 24, 2024October 25, 2024 Lois Leveen black intellectual history, teaching

In “Don’t Cash Crop My Cornrows,” a video created for her high school history class that later went viral, Amandla

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Online Roundtable–The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento

August 5, 2024August 7, 2024 AAIHS Editors #Roundtable, #TheDialecticIsInTheSea, Afro-Brazilians, Beatriz Nascimento, blackness, Brazil

August 26th to September 3rd, 2024 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is

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Why the New Great Migration Matters

January 8, 2024January 1, 2024 Beatrice J. Adams African Diaspora, Civil Rights Movement, Great Migration, Migration

In the recent documentary “South to Black Power,” Charles Blow reaffirms his previous call for a “Second Great Migration.” His

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The Lyrical Activism of Sister Souljah

August 17, 2023August 17, 2023 Eva Bohler #HipHop50, #HipHopSeries, hip hop

This post is part of our forum on “Hip Hop at 50.”  Sister Souljah (born Lisa Williamson) is an emcee,

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Chuck D Brought Me Here: Rap, Race, and Radical Politics

August 16, 2023August 16, 2023 Christopher Rounds #HipHop50, #HipHopSeries, hip hop

This post is part of our forum on “Hip Hop at 50.”  Before I completed elementary school, Public Enemy had

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