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Women’s Experiences during the American Civil War

January 8, 2021January 3, 2021 Robert Colby Black women, book review, Civil War, Gender, slavery

In the winter of 1863 and 1864, with the Civil War entering its third year, two women living in Southeastern

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The Best Black History Books of 2020

December 21, 2020March 29, 2021 AAIHS Editors

We asked editors and bloggers of Black Perspectives to select the best books published in 2020 on Black History, and they

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The Black Republic: An Author’s Response

December 11, 2020December 10, 2020 Brandon Byrd #TheBlackRepublic, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Haiti

The most familiar story about nineteenth-century African Americans and the Haitian Revolution is a romanticized account of how the revolution

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Black Brazilian Researchers and Activists Respond to Covid-19

December 2, 2020December 2, 2020 Kia Lilly Caldwell African Diaspora, Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, COVID-19, health, race, racism

By late May 2020, Brazil was the country with the second-highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the world. 

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Crafting a Global Message of Anti-Racism

November 23, 2020November 21, 2020 Nicholas Grant Activism, African Diaspora, Black political thought, black politics, Blacks in Britain, Claudia Jones, colonialism, Eslanda Robeson, race, racism, Resistance, white supremacy

In late October, Kemi Badenoch took to the dispatch box in the House of Commons during a parliamentary debate about

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