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“Free the Land!”: Fifty Years of the Republic of New Afrika

April 10, 2018April 30, 2018 Dan Berger black nationalism, Black radicalism, self-determination

An impressive assortment of Black radicals gathered to sign the Declaration of Independence. It was not Philadelphia 1776, of course,

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Multiple and Interlocking: Black Lives Matter as a Lens

March 27, 2018April 2, 2018 Jenn M. Jackson Activism, black lives matter, police violence, Social Movements

*A version of this essay originally appeared on Public Seminar, as part of its Race/isms Book Forum on The Making of Black Lives Matter:

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Black Panther and the Politics of Black Heroism

March 10, 2018March 15, 2018 Sheena Howard #BlackPanther, #comicsandrace

*This post is part of our new blog series on The World of the Black Panther. This series, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter

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Finalists for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History

March 4, 2018March 6, 2018 AAIHS Editors black intellectual history

The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is pleased to announce the finalists for the first annual Pauli Murray Book

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“History is Knowledge, Identity, and Power”: Lerone Bennett Jr., 1928–2018

February 15, 2018February 20, 2018 E. James West black intellectual history, Black Leaders

When I found out about Lerone Bennett, Jr’s passing, I was immediately struck by his sense of poetic timing. In life, Bennett

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