The Legacy of the 1968 Rebellion for Today’s Protests in ‘Chocolate City’
In 1968, Washington Post journalists Harry Jaffe and Tom Sherwood named police brutality as one of the factors motivating protestors
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Open Letter to Pitt: Racial Justice and the Shifting Winds of a Nation
Dear members of the Pitt community, As chair of the Department of Africana Studies, I, like many people across the
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Civic Memory in a Radical Bristol: Edward Colston and Black Lives Matter
On Sunday June 7, 2020, a Black man climbed up onto a plinth in the center of the British city of
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Introducing a New Series on Black Ecologies
Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is launching a new interdisciplinary series titled #BlackEcologies beginning with today’s
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Black Lives Matter on Campus– Universities Must Rethink Reliance on Campus Policing and Prison Labor
In the wake of the devastating murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, people have taken to
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