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Black Women and the Making of Human Rights

July 9, 2025July 8, 2025 Keisha N. Blain Black women, human rights, police violence, policing

Although I had been dabbling with the idea for quite some time, I started writing a book on Black women

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Black Washingtonians in the Fight for Equality: An Interview with Maurice Jackson

February 19, 2025February 19, 2025 Robert Greene II Washington DC

In today’s post, Dr. Robert Greene II, assistant professor of history at Claflin University and President of AAIHS, interviews historian

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Reflections of the 60th Anniversary of Urban Uprisings in America

October 17, 2024October 18, 2024 Heather Ann Thompson UrbanRebellions

This post is part of our forum on the Urban Rebellions of the 1960s On this momentous 60th anniversary of

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Online Forum-Urban Rebellions in the 1960s

October 11, 2024October 11, 2024 AAIHS Editors black protest, Resistance, UrbanRebellions

October 14-17, 2024 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum that

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Situating Nigerian Women in Global Black Politics Discourse

September 17, 2024September 17, 2024 Adaugo Pamela Nwakanma #BlackWomensActivismInTheDiaspora, African Diaspora, Gender, Nigeria

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women’s Activism in the African Diaspora.”  In 1929, before the wave

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