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Hope, Faith, and Metaphor in African American History

September 25, 2023August 31, 2023 Nico Slate African American history, Barack Obama, Black History, History, Martin Luther King Jr.

In November 2022, the Chief Justice of India, D.Y. Chandrachud, cited Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. while encouraging his fellow

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Translating Blackness and Transcending Hierarchies of Belonging

September 13, 2023September 7, 2023 Crystal M. Fleming #TranslatingBlackness, African Diaspora, black internationalism, Frederick Douglass

This post is part of our online roundtable on Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness. In the penultimate chapter of Translating Blackness:

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On The Sixtieth Anniversary of the March on Washington

August 28, 2023August 28, 2023 Robert Greene II civil rights

In recent years, memorialization of the Civil Rights era from the 1950s and 1960s has taken on a new urgency

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Online Roundtable–Reighan Gillam’s ‘Visualizing Black Lives’

March 31, 2023March 29, 2023 AAIHS Editors #Roundtable, #VisualizingBlackLives, Book Forum, Brazil, MEDIA

April 3–7, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Reighan Gillam’s Visualizing Black

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Online Roundtable-Adam Lee Cilli’s ‘Canaan, Dim and Far’

February 3, 2023February 3, 2023 AAIHS Editors #CanaanDim, #Roundtable, book review, citizenship, Pittsburgh

February 6–10, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan,

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