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Online Forum:10th Anniversary of Black Perspectives Celebration, Part I

January 22, 2024January 22, 2024 AAIHS Editors

January 23, 2024 to February 1, 2024 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS),

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Mollie Moon and Funding the Civil Rights Movement

January 10, 2024January 1, 2024 Mickell Carter biography, Civil Rights Movement, Fundraising, Molly Moon, Review

Elegance. Galas. Balls. Fashion shows. Fine dining. When we think about the Civil Rights Movement these words typically do not

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The Best Black History Books of 2023

December 11, 2023December 7, 2023 AAIHS Editors aaihs

We asked editors and bloggers of Black Perspectives to select the best books published in 2023 on Black History, and they

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The Controversy of the Without Sanctuary Museum Exhibit

December 4, 2023December 1, 2023 Menika Dirkson Jim Crow, lynching, museums

On May 22, 1917, the lynching of Ell Persons, a Black woodcutter, occurred in a carnival-type setting in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Womanist Imagination and Liberation from the Politics of Colorblind Positivism

November 15, 2023October 31, 2023 Joshua Ro Bible, Black Theology, Christianity, Theology, Womanist Theology

This post is part of our forum on “Womanist Theology.“ In a 2018 podcast debate with journalist Ezra Klein, popular

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