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State v. Mann: Lydia’s Journey

February 23, 2022February 22, 2022 Sally Greene Black women, Freedom Suits, law, North Carolina, slavery

Naturally, we don’t know her full name. That we know her at all is only because of a gun aimed

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A Review of Black Perspectives Roundtables and CFPs in 2021

January 25, 2022January 24, 2022 Robert Greene II #AAIHSRoundtable, archives, black intellectual history, black lives matter, race

In 2021, Black Perspectives commissioned several roundtables and calls for papers. All of them either marked the occasion of an

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Radio Journalism and Civil Rights

January 13, 2022January 12, 2022 Bala James Baptiste black nationalism, Chicago, civil rights, journalism, New Orleans, Radio

The first radio stations that targeted all of their programming toward African Americans in Chicago and New Orleans disseminated different types

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MLK And Lillian Smith

December 20, 2021December 19, 2021 Matthew Teutsch Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, Gender, South

On Sunday October 16, 1960, three days before the October 19 Atlanta sit ins where Martin Luther King, Jr. was

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Black Radicalism and the Right to Bail

December 6, 2021December 5, 2021 Tony Pecinovsky black radical tradition, race, W.E.B. Du Bois

New York’s LaGuardia Airport was abuzz. On December 9, 1951, two of the most well-known African American activists of the

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