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Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: A New Book About Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life

January 24, 2020January 24, 2020 AAIHS Editors Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, Jim Crow, New Negro, Resistance, Washington DC, youth

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Rosa Parks on Police Brutality: The Speech We Never Heard

January 23, 2020January 23, 2020 Say Burgin Activism, black politics, black protest, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, police brutality, police violence

In 1965, Rosa Parks would have had a lot to say about police brutality. By then, she had left Alabama

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On Sociality

January 22, 2020January 19, 2020 Marquis Bey #OnSuite, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, Gender, LGBT, sexuality, trans identity

*This post is part of contributor Marquis Bey’s On Suite series. Sociality, n. The state or quality of being sociable; (the enjoyment

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Mothers 4 Housing and the Legacy of Black Anti-Growth Politics

January 15, 2020February 23, 2020 J. T. Roane Activism, black politics, Black Power, black protest, Black radicalism, police brutality, Resistance

Yesterday at 6 a.m., deputies of the Oakland Police Department violently evicted an organized group of Black mothers, Moms 4

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Black Scholars Respond to Dr. Lorgia García Peña Tenure Denial at Harvard

December 12, 2019January 2, 2020 AAIHS Editors Activism, education

*The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) stands in solidarity with Dr. Lorgia García Peña, a Black Studies scholar who was recently

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