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Hair Discrimination, Anti-Black Racism, and Resistance

October 26, 2021October 25, 2021 Adele N. Norris Gender, race

This is the second of a two-part series about discrimination and Black hair. For part one, click here.  The politics

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#AAIHS2022: Call for Papers–A Virtual Conference

August 23, 2021October 1, 2021 AAIHS Editors

The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)’s Seventh Annual Conference Everyday Practices, Memory Making, and Local Spaces March 11-12, 2022 

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Remembering, Rethinking, and Renaming the Watts Rebellion

August 13, 2021August 11, 2021 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. black protest, Resistance

Stop referring to what happened in Los Angeles from August 11- 16, 1965 as the Watts Riot. Call the events

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Gen Z Hip Hop, Rod Wave, and Black Masculinity

June 17, 2021June 17, 2021 Mickell Carter Activism, art, Gender, music, Resistance

Early this year, rapper Rod Wave’s album, Soul Fly, entered the music scene with a sharp analysis of contemporary Black manhood.

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George Floyd and the Global Fight for Black Lives

May 26, 2021June 5, 2021 Mickell Carter Black Europe, black internationalism, blackness, police brutality, police violence

The murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, acted as a catalyst for Black Lives Matter protests around the

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