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Ada Wright, the Scottsboro Defense Campaign, and the Popular Front

July 13, 2021July 11, 2021 Ashley Everson black protest, Black women, racism

In the midst of the Great Depression in 1931, nine Black teenage boys were falsely convicted of allegedly raping two

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The Borders of Black Power

June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 Adam Ewing #QuitoSwan, Black political thought, Black Power, environmental justice

*This post is part of our roundtable on Quito Swan’s ‘Pauulu’s Diaspora.’ Dr. Swan will be in conversation with Dr.

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Blog Announcements: Summer 2021 Editorial Interns

May 28, 2021June 5, 2021 AAIHS Editors aaihs

The editing team of Black Perspectives is pleased to announce the 2021 summer internship cohort! Please join us in welcoming these talented

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Excavating the History of Afro-Brazilian Women

April 5, 2021April 18, 2021 Celeste Henery African Diaspora, archives, Brazil, carceral state, Historical Memory, slavery

Only a few pages remain of what is cited as the first known text written by an Afro-Brazilian woman. Rosa

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2021 Finalists for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History

March 4, 2021March 3, 2021 AAIHS Editors

The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is pleased to announce the finalists for the fourth annual Pauli Murray Book

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