The Times-Picayune’s Historical Use of the N-Word
The News Orleans daily newspaper the Times-Picayune, since its founding on January 25, 1837, and throughout 1914, when it merged
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Blog Announcements: Meet the Editing Team!
The editing team of Black Perspectives is excited to begin the next academic year! Thank you for supporting us over
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On The Sixtieth Anniversary of the March on Washington
In recent years, memorialization of the Civil Rights era from the 1950s and 1960s has taken on a new urgency
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Online Roundtable–Kaysha Corinealdi’s ‘Panama in Black’
May 29–June 2, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Kaysha
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Black Resistance and Slave Politics in Lowcountry Georgia
Within Lowcountry Georgia, enslaved Africans expressed a determined political will to resist enslavement and maintain dignity. Their dislocation reinforced
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