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W.E.B. Du Bois and the Souls of Academic Folk

February 21, 2018February 24, 2018 Roopika Risam #AAIHSRoundtable, #DuBoisForum, black intellectual history, black internationalism, black politics, teaching, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. In higher education debates, W.E.B. Du Bois is perhaps

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On W. E. B. Du Bois and Poetry

February 20, 2018February 24, 2018 Phillip Luke Sinitiere #AAIHSRoundtable, #DuBoisForum, black intellectual history, black politics, Pan-Africanism, racism, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. At Carnegie Hall on February 23, 1964, Lorraine Hansberry

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A Troubled Past: The United States and Africa since World War II

February 16, 2018February 20, 2018 Jessica Ann Levy africa, Anticolonialism, Donald Trump, imperialism, racism, Soviet Union

A few weeks ago, President Donald Trump sparked yet another international controversy with his reference to “sh**hole countries” to describe

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The Anti-Black City: A New Book on Black Urban Life in Brazil

February 12, 2018February 16, 2018 Keisha N. Blain Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, carceral state, police brutality, police violence, policing

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Radical Black Peace Activism in the Black Liberation Movement

February 12, 2018February 16, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly Anticolonialism, colonialism, imperialism, Soviet Union, Third World Women’s Alliance

On July 4, 1964, the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) wrote a letter to the Vietnamese Front of National Liberation congratulating

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