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A Mountainous Freedom

June 17, 2016December 30, 2016 Guest Poster #FreedomAAIHS, C.L.R. James, Haitian Revolution, marronage

Today, we continue our roundtable on Neil Roberts‘s Freedom as Marronage with a contribution from Minkah Makalani, associate professor in

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Why We Must Remember: Reflecting on the Charleston Massacre One Year Later

June 17, 2016June 16, 2016 Keisha N. Blain Charleston, Racial Violence, South Carolina, violence

On June 17, 2015, a white supremacist walked into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina,

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“Scholarship is Not Dispassionate, But it is Deliberate and Systematic”: Robin D. G. Kelley Reflects on Cedric Robinson

June 13, 2016June 13, 2016 Guest Poster #CedricRobinson, Black Marxism

Today we conclude our special series in honor of Professor Cedric Robinson who passed away on Sunday, June 5, 2016.

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Pan-Africanism, Feminism and Finding Missing Pan-Africanist Women

May 31, 2016May 29, 2016 Guest Poster Amy Ashwood Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey, Claudia Jones, feminism, Pan-Africanism

This is a guest post by Dr. Ajamu Nangwaya, an educator in Ontario’s post-secondary educator sector. He has a doctorate in

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When Scholars Cry: Celebrating the Career of Thomas C. Holt

May 28, 2016June 4, 2016 Guy Emerson Mount black intellectual history, black politics, black protest

If you’ve never seen a historian cry, you’re probably hanging out with the wrong historians. The day you see multiple

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