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Online Forum–Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy

January 13, 2023January 11, 2023 AAIHS Editors #BlackIntellectualDemocracy, American Democracy, black intellectuals, democracy, intellectuals

January 16, 2023 to January 23, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an

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New England’s Unsung Black Liberation Movement

December 8, 2022December 6, 2022 Dylan O’Hara Activism, Boston, education, Massachusetts, New England, School Activism

Zebulon Miletsky’s impressive book project, Before Busing: A History of Boston’s Long Black Freedom Struggle, weaves together 350 years of

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Billie Holiday and the Black Arts Movement

December 7, 2022December 5, 2022 Whit Frazier Peterson Billie Holiday, Black Arts Movement, Blues, jazz, music

The Black Arts Movement (BAM) was a controversial, politically charged cultural uprising, which James Smethurst, in his eponymous study of

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Black Religion and Political Thought

December 1, 2022November 25, 2022 Joseph Winters black lives matter, Black political thought, Black Power, book review, religion

In the era of Black Lives Matter, Black political thought has acquired renewed interest and attention. As recurring incidents of

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The Local Politics of Fannie Lou Hamer

October 6, 2022October 4, 2022 Stefan Bradley #UntilIAmFree, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, democracy, Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi, SNCC

This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Until I Am Free. By age 44, most people

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