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‘I Have a Copyright’: Interview with Daniel Fleming, Winner of the 2019 Maria Stewart Prize

July 24, 2019July 26, 2019 AAIHS Editors Activism, archives, black politics, black protest, Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr., race

This is an interview with Dr. Daniel Fleming, whose article “‘I Have a Copyright’: The Privatization of Martin Luther King’s

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Voices of Freedom Outside the South: An Oral History Resource

July 23, 2019July 15, 2019 Say Burgin archives, Black Panther Party, black politics, Black Power, Civil Rights Movement, education, oral history, race, teaching

Some of my most exciting moments as an educator have been seeing how students engage with oral histories from the

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Jazz and Justice: A New Book on Racism and the Political Economy of the Music

July 22, 2019July 17, 2019 Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt art, black politics, culture, jazz, Jim Crow, music, St. Louis

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

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Mapping Blackness in Yugoslavia and Post-Yugoslav Space

July 17, 2019September 16, 2019 Sunnie Rucker-Chang African Diaspora, Black Europe, capitalism, Communism, Pan-Africanism, race, Soviet Union

96-year-old Fatmire is one of the few remaining members of a small and relatively unknown Afro-Albanian “Black” community in Montenegro, a

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Radical Blackness and Mutual Comradeship at 409 Edgecombe

July 16, 2019July 7, 2019 Charisse Burden-Stelly Activism, Black Marxism, black politics, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Black women, Communism, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, New York, race

In the first half of the twentieth century, Sugar Hill was the premier Black neighborhood in New York City that

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