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Paul Robeson–The Revolutionary

February 8, 2022February 7, 2022 Tony Pecinovsky Activism, black intellectual history, Black radicalism

It was reported in his New York Times obituary that Paul Robeson became a “virtual recluse” by the time of his death

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Why Black AIDS History Matters

February 7, 2022February 6, 2022 Dan Royles Activism, black lives matter, black protest

As we enter the third year of the Covid-19 pandemic, it might be easy to forget that in early 2020

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A Sampling of Black Perspectives Posts: July to December 2021

January 27, 2022January 26, 2022 Robert Greene II Black Appalachia, black hair, black internationalism, public memory, United States Colored Troops

Black Perspectives continued its tradition of tying Black intellectual history to a wide range of fields throughout the second half

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Highways, High-Rises and Food Deserts

January 19, 2022January 18, 2022 E. James West Black Metropolis, Chicago, documumerica, photography, urban

This is the second part of our series about Race and DOCUMERICA.   For many DOCUMERICA photographers, images of Black life

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The International MLK

January 17, 2022January 16, 2022 Robert Greene II Civil Rights Movement, Internationalism, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK Day, Vietnam War

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1959 Morehouse Commencement Address offered the young pastor an opportunity to tell the graduates of his

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