Police Power and the Election of Newark’s First Black Mayor
Fifty years ago, Newark, New Jersey, elected its first Black mayor—Kenneth Gibson—at a moment when there was an urgency to
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Centering the History of Black Women in the French Empire
Annette Joseph-Gabriel’s Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire offers a bold new path for reimagining
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Online Forum: Eric Williams’ ‘Capitalism and Slavery’
September 21–25, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), will host an online forum on
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The Lasting Influence of the ‘Imprisoned Black Radical Tradition’
*This interview is part of our online forum on ‘The Imprisoned Black Radical Tradition,’ organized by Stephen Wilson and Garrett Felber. The
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African American Women and the Building of Educational Institutions
In 1865, just months after the Civil War had ended, the Colored People’s Educational Monument Association (CPEMA) worked to establish
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