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Black Panthers and LAPD

December 9, 2022December 9, 2022 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. Angela Davis, Black Panther Party, Black Power Movement, Los Angeles, Police

There is much to learn from studying the Black Power Movement in the context of the Black intellectual-activist tradition. It takes

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Remembering Civil Rights Activist Fannie Lou Hamer

October 3, 2022October 3, 2022 Rhonda Y. Williams #AAIHSRoundtable, #UntilIAmFree, Activism, black protest, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Gender

This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Until I Am Free. Prelude I teach a course

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The International Slave Trade, Colonialism, and Epidemiology

September 26, 2022September 22, 2022 Christopher D. E. Willoughby slave trade, slavery

In Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine, Jim Downs tells a new origin story for epidemiology.

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Blog Announcements: Welcome to the New Contributors!

September 1, 2022August 31, 2022 AAIHS Editors aaihs

We’re excited to announce this year’s new contributors to Black Perspectives. This diverse group of talented scholars will explore a range of topics

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From Police Power to Police Practice

August 18, 2022August 12, 2022 DeAnza A. Cook #StreetsBelongToUs, Black women, carceral state, Police, prisons

This post is part of our online roundtable on Anne Gray Fischer’s The Streets Belong to Us The United States of

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