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The Great Migration and Black Women’s Political Work

January 21, 2025January 19, 2025 Katie Singer #GeorgiaOfTheNorth, Black women, Civil Rights Movement

This post is part of our online roundtable on Hettie V. Williams’s The Georgia of the North. There will never be

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Online Roundtable–The Georgia of the North

January 14, 2025January 19, 2025 AAIHS Editors #GeorgiaOfTheNorth

January 21 to January 28, 2025 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is

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The Best Black History Books of 2024

December 30, 2024December 29, 2024 AAIHS Editors #BlackHistory, bestbooks, books

We are pleased to release this year’s AAIHS list of the best books published in 2024! Check out this extraordinary

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Beyonce, Ameriican Requiem, and Reclaiming Genre

November 22, 2024November 19, 2024 Elizabeth Gonzalez Black women, music, popular culture, racism

“Nothing really ends, for things to stay the same they have to change again” On March 29, 2024, Beyoncé released

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Malcolm X, MLK, and the Call for a Cultural Revolution

November 15, 2024November 14, 2024 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. black politics, Black radicalism, Civil Rights Movement

Both Minister Malcolm X and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. are oftentimes referred to as civil rights activists. Peniel E.

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