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Documenting Racial Violence Through Photography

November 13, 2018December 10, 2018 Matthew Teutsch Activism, photography, Racial Violence

Earlier this year, John Ira Jennings and Damian Duffy’s graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Kindred (1979) won the 2018

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Online Forum: Frederick Douglass @ 200

November 12, 2018November 26, 2018 AAIHS Editors Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass Forum

November 26-30, 2018 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on Frederick Douglass on

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‘Sexuality and Slavery’: A New Book on Intimate Histories in the Americas

November 5, 2018November 11, 2018 J. T. Roane sexuality, slavery

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Black Rebellion and the Political Imaginations of African American Teachers

November 5, 2018November 11, 2018 Jarvis R. Givens black radical tradition, Black radicalism, education, Harriet Tubman, Nat Turner, teaching

Nat Turner became an impromptu topic of discussion in my third grade classroom. Ms. Todman had a way of getting

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A Black Womanist Requiem for Katie G. Cannon

October 31, 2018November 3, 2018 Eboni Marshall Turman Black women, black women scholars, race, religion

Katie G. Cannon’s untimely death, has compelled me to begin this reflection at the funeral. Not hers; but my first funeral

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