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AAIHS Statement on the Buffalo Shooting

May 17, 2022July 20, 2022 Robert Greene II black lives matter, Racial Violence, white supremacy

The African American Intellectual History Society condemns the vicious and brutal shooting that occurred on Saturday, May 14 in Buffalo,

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Robert Rayford, State Violence, and AIDS in Black America

May 11, 2022May 10, 2022 Dan Royles HIV-AIDS, policing, Robert Rayford, St. Louis, youth

In the forty-one years since doctors first recognized what would become known as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) among gay

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Groups marching to demand climate and racial justice. (Photo by: Steve Sanchez)   #AAIHS2023 The African American Intellectual History Society

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When the Nevada Supreme Court Tackled Racial Bias

May 5, 2022May 5, 2022 Randolph M. Fiedler & Jocelyn S. Murphy black lives matter, George Floyd, Las Vegas, police brutality, Supreme Court

Thirty years ago, seeking to address “the civil unrest in Las Vegas” triggered by decades-long discrimination against Black people throughout

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Betting on Black: Gambling and Gaming in the ‘Mississippi of the West’

May 4, 2022May 5, 2022 Kendra Gage, Javon Johnson, and Tyler D. Parry #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackLasVegas, Jim Crow

      In the famous 1954 Ebony article “Negroes can’t win in Las Vegas,” James Goodrich dubbed Sin City

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