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Online Forum–Race & Latin America

October 9, 2023October 8, 2023 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #raceandlatinamerica, African Diaspora, Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, Carnival, Latin America, Women

October 11, 2023 to October 19, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS),

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The Life and Activism of Rosa Parks: A CBFS Interview

October 5, 2023September 22, 2023 Lucien Baskin Black Women's History, CBFS, Civil Rights Movement, interview, Rosa Parks

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black

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Mary E. Pleasant: Reshaping the Landscape of Segregation in California

October 4, 2023September 19, 2023 E. Nicole Vines Black women, California, Jim Crow, Mary E. Pleasant, segregation

Between the 1830s and 1890s, the Colored Conventions Movement transformed Black political organizing across the US. Of the thirty states

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Black Women’s Activism through History and Poetry

October 2, 2023September 7, 2023 Cathleen D. Cahill Black women, Carrie Williams Clifford, Club women, freedom, poetry

“Somehow, we’ve weathered and witnessed a nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished.” -Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb  Those

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Arturo Schomburg, Black Studies, and Social Change

September 28, 2023September 15, 2023 DJ Polite Arturo Schomburg, Black History, Black Studies, John Henrik Clarke

Around 1930, a fifteen-year-old John Henrik Clarke travelled to New York City, New York, anxious to meet Arturo Schomburg at

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