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The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

April 30, 2021April 28, 2021 AAIHS Editors

May 31, 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, when a violent white mob nearly destroyed the

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The MOVE Bombing and the Callous Handling of Black Remains

April 26, 2021April 26, 2021 Jessica Parr medical experimentation, medical racism, police brutality, police violence

The 1985 MOVE bombing by the Philadelphia Police shocked and devastated a city, leaving destruction that killed 11 people, including

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Call for Submissions: The Centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre

April 23, 2021April 22, 2021 AAIHS Editors

Editor: Robert Greene II, Ph.D. Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), invites blog

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Black Lesbian Thought: An Interview with Briona Simone Jones

April 19, 2021April 19, 2021 Emerald Rutledge African Diaspora, black feminism, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, Black women, Gender, Historical Memory, LGBT, literature, race, Resistance, sexuality

In today’s post, Emerald Rutledge, an associate editor of Black Perspectives, interviews Briona Simone Jones on her new edited collection, Mouths of

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Black Soldiers and the Civil War

April 8, 2021April 18, 2021 Aston Gonzalez Black women, race, Resistance, slavery

Shortly after the Emancipation Proclamation enabled African American men to enlist in the Union army in 1863, Alexander Thomas Augusta

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