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On Louise Little, the Mother of Malcolm X: An Interview with Erik S. McDuffie

February 19, 2017February 21, 2017 Keisha N. Blain #RememberingMalcolm, #WomenandPanAfricanismSeries, Malcolm X, Pan-Africanism

In today’s post, Keisha N. Blain, Senior Editor of Black Perspectives, interviews Erik S. McDuffie about his recent article in the special

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Black Women and the Peoples Temple in Jonestown

January 31, 2017February 3, 2017 Sikivu Hutchinson religion

On November 18, 1978, over nine hundred members of the San Francisco-based Peoples Temple church (including over three hundred children)

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Online Forum: “Remembering Malcolm”

January 28, 2017February 16, 2017 AAIHS Editors #RememberingMalcolm

February 19-25, 2017 Black Perspectives is hosting an online forum in recognition of the 52nd anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination.

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Attica: The Present and the Recent Past

January 26, 2017January 28, 2017 LaShawn Harris #BloodintheWater, carceral state, mass incarceration, police violence

This is the fifth day of our roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison

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The Long History of Black Women’s Exclusion in Historic Marches in Washington

January 4, 2017December 22, 2017 Ashley Farmer Black women, civil rights, Politics

On Saturday, January 21, 2017, the day after the presidential inauguration, thousands of women will descend on the nation’s capital

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