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Online Roundtable: Robert T. Chase’s ‘We Are Not Slaves’

January 4, 2021January 10, 2021 AAIHS Editors #WeAreNotSlaves

January 11-15, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of Civil

Black Lives Matter: A Legacy of Black Power Protest

June 10, 2020June 9, 2020 Hasan Kwame Jeffries

This week we’re revisiting selections from our 2016 series ‘With Love and Respect: #ScholarsRespond to A Vision for Black Lives,’

Black Surveillance Matters

June 9, 2020June 9, 2020 Megan Ming Francis

This week we’re revisiting selections from our 2016 series ‘With Love and Respect: #ScholarsRespond to A Vision for Black Lives,’

Using MLK to Quell Outrage Distorts His Legacy

June 8, 2020June 7, 2020 Jeanne Theoharis civil rights, Martin Luther King Jr., policing, Resistance

Over the past week, numerous public officials—faced with disruptive protests around police brutality and racial inequality in the age of

Marcus, Martin, and Minneapolis: A Statement from the University of the West Indies

June 6, 2020June 6, 2020 Sir Hilary Beckles

Martin Luther King Jr, when he felt he could not breathe came to Jamaica. When the threats to his life