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Josephine Butler and Environmental Activism in Washington, DC

January 13, 2018January 20, 2018 Jaimee A. Swift Black women, environmentalism, social justice

The first time I heard about Josephine Butler was when I stepped into the building named after her––the Josephine Butler

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Online Forum: A History of Student Activism

December 30, 2017January 8, 2018 AAIHS Editors #StudentActivismForum, civil rights, student activism, youth

January 8–12, 2018 A line of African American students walking through a crowd of white boys in Clinton, TN, during

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Black Identity Extremists: COINTELPRO 2017

November 13, 2017November 15, 2017 Robyn C. Spencer black nationalism, Black Panther Party, black politics, Black Power, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, police brutality, white supremacy

On October 6, 2017 an FBI internal report identifying “Black Identity Extremists” (BIE) as a major threat to Law Enforcement

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Revolutionary Optimism in Despicable Times

November 4, 2017November 8, 2017 Russell Rickford black lives matter, Black October, Marxism, Russian Revolution

This post is part of our online forum, “Black October,” on the Russian Revolution and the African Diaspora “Life is not an

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The Rise of Incarceration in Los Angeles: An Interview with Kelly Lytle Hernandez

October 28, 2017October 31, 2017 Erica Sterling Los Angeles, mass incarceration

In today’s post, Erica Sterling, a PhD student in the Department of History at Harvard University, interviews Kelly Lytle Hernandez about

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