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Online Forum: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker

May 14, 2019May 14, 2019 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #WalkerCentennial, Activism, black politics, Black women, Madam CJ Walker, Resistance

May 20-24, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on Madam C.

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Between Radicalism and Repression: Walter Rodney’s Revolutionary Praxis  

May 6, 2019May 6, 2019 Charisse Burden-Stelly Anticolonialism, Black political thought, Black radicalism, colonialism, Neoimperialism, repression, Walter Rodney

On June 13, 1980, the Black Marxist, Pan-Africanist, historian, and scholar-activist Walter Rodney was assassinated in Georgetown, Guyana.1 That year, students

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Lupe Fiasco’s “Manillas” and the Material Culture of Anti-Black Violence

May 2, 2019May 6, 2019 Tyler Parry capitalism, hip hop, music, slavery

In Lupe Fiasco’s seventh album, Droga’s Wave, he unveils how the historic legacies of transatlantic slavery connect with contemporary Black

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Frederick Douglass, Family, and Biography

April 26, 2019October 31, 2019 Ezra Greenspan #DouglassForward, race, Resistance

*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each

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Toward a Synchronic Reading of Frederick Douglass

April 24, 2019April 22, 2019 Robert Levine #DouglassForward, Activism, Frederick Douglass, Resistance, slavery

*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each

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