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A Sampling of 2021 Black Perspectives Posts: January to June

January 26, 2022January 25, 2022 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, black politics, black protest, Black radicalism

The year in blogging for Black Perspectives in 2021 was one that was dedicated to both the usual cutting edge

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A Review of Black Perspectives Roundtables and CFPs in 2021

January 25, 2022January 24, 2022 Robert Greene II #AAIHSRoundtable, archives, black intellectual history, black lives matter, race

In 2021, Black Perspectives commissioned several roundtables and calls for papers. All of them either marked the occasion of an

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The International MLK

January 17, 2022January 16, 2022 Robert Greene II Civil Rights Movement, Internationalism, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK Day, Vietnam War

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1959 Morehouse Commencement Address offered the young pastor an opportunity to tell the graduates of his

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Radio Journalism and Civil Rights

January 13, 2022January 12, 2022 Bala James Baptiste black nationalism, Chicago, civil rights, journalism, New Orleans, Radio

The first radio stations that targeted all of their programming toward African Americans in Chicago and New Orleans disseminated different types

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Black Remembrance and Racial Violence in New Orleans

December 21, 2021December 20, 2021 Sowande’ M. Mustakeem Jim Crow, Racial Violence

In 1831, Nat Turner—who led a band of bondpeople into insurrection in Southampton, Virginia –was executed, quelling what a great

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