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On Borders and the Matters of Black Life: A Review of “Seven Seconds”

April 11, 2018April 30, 2018 J. T. Roane film, Jim Crow, police brutality, police violence, Visual Culture

*Editor’s Note: This essay contains spoilers* In the recently released Netflix drama, Seven Seconds, viewers are confronted with a dramatization of

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#AAIHS2018: Reflecting on the Past’s Presence 3.0

April 11, 2018April 13, 2018 Phillip Luke Sinitiere Activism, black intellectual history, black internationalism, black politics, Black radicalism, Black women

I’m grateful to continue the tradition of offering an AAIHS conference summary again this year, as I did in 2016

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“Free the Land!”: Fifty Years of the Republic of New Afrika

April 10, 2018April 30, 2018 Dan Berger black nationalism, Black radicalism, self-determination

An impressive assortment of Black radicals gathered to sign the Declaration of Independence. It was not Philadelphia 1776, of course,

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Bodyminds Reimagined: A New Book on Disability, Race, and Gender

April 9, 2018April 13, 2018 Keisha N. Blain Afrofuturism, disability

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Islam, Art, and Intersectional Identity

April 9, 2018April 13, 2018 Alaina Morgan Activism, art, Islam

Until recently, when I thought of Islamic art I thought immediately of structures like the Mezquita in Cordoba, Spain. Now

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