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Rap Dreams in South Central: An Interview with Jooyoung Lee

January 6, 2018January 10, 2018 Darryl Robertson #HipHopSeries, hip hop, music, Performance

In today’s post, Darryl Robertson, a graduate student at Fordham University, interviews Jooyoung Lee about his new book, Blowin’ Up: Rap Dreams in South Central, which

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Cartoonist Jackie Ormes’ Commentary on Black Life

January 5, 2018January 8, 2018 Matthew Teutsch black politics, Black women, civil rights, lynching, Racial Violence, segregation

Writing in the Chicago Defender in 1948, Langston Hughes proclaimed, “If I were marooned on a desert island . . . I

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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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2017 in Review: Top Posts on Black Women’s History

December 28, 2017January 2, 2018 AAIHS Editors

In 2017, Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), featured a wide variety of pieces, including articles that

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Moving Slave Narratives from Film to Comics

December 22, 2017December 29, 2017 Nathan Moore comic books, film, Racial Violence, slavery, violence

Comics might not be the first place you’d think to go to for profound meditations on complex topics like war,

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