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Before the Central Park Five, There Was the Trenton Six

July 3, 2019June 21, 2019 Denise Lynn civil rights, Communism, Communist Party, Jim Crow, NAACP, police brutality, police violence, prisons, race, racism

The four-part docuseries When They See Us, directed by Ava DuVernay, has brought attention to the notorious case of the Central

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Beyond the ‘Great Men’ Canon of Black Intellectual History

June 11, 2019June 9, 2019 La TaSha Levy #AAIHSRoundtable, #RethinkingAAIH, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black political thought, black politics, Black women, education, Politics, race

*This post is part of our online forum titled “What is African American Intellectual History?“ African American intellectual history is

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Presumed Criminal: A New Book on Black Youth and the Justice System in New York

May 13, 2019May 13, 2019 J. T. Roane criminal justice system, mass incarceration, New York, urban history, youth

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

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North Korea’s Unlikely History with Black Radicals

April 11, 2019August 12, 2022 Benjamin Young Afro-Asia, Black Panther Party, Black Power, Black radicalism

In 1969, Eldridge Cleaver, then a leader of the Black Panther Party, a radical organization based in Oakland that advocated

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Mapping Resistance to Surveillance

March 29, 2019August 12, 2022 Dan Berger carceral state, mass incarceration

As pundits await the release of the full Mueller Report and speculate about its final contents, the FBI enjoys greater

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