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Pandemic Deepens Food Inequality in Brooklyn

October 13, 2020October 19, 2020 Khadhazha Welch #AAIHSRoundtable, #Autoethnographies, Activism, Black women, Gender, racism, Resistance

Editor’s note: This essay is part of our two-week blog series, featuring eight autoethnographies from students at Brooklyn College. Read

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Black Queer Women and Femmes Fight for Housing Rights in Brooklyn

October 12, 2020October 19, 2020 Emily Batiste #Autoethnographies, Activism, Black Queers, class, COVID-19, race, racism, student activism

Editor’s note: This essay is part of our two-week blog series, featuring eight autoethnographies from students at Brooklyn College. Read

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Pauli Murray and the Need for Racial Reckoning

October 5, 2020October 4, 2020 Barbara Lau and Robin Kirk Activism, black feminism, black protest, Black women, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, education, Gender, race, racism, Resistance, sexuality, South

Confederate monuments are toppling across the nation following the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other African Americans.

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Surveillance, State Power, and the Activism of Shirley Graham Du Bois

September 1, 2020September 1, 2020 Denise Lynn Activism, black internationalism, Canada, Communism, W.E.B. Du Bois

The recent Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality are a reminder that social justice advocacy and activism can come

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More than Diversity— A Call to Action from University of Chicago Faculty

August 6, 2020August 6, 2020 AAIHS Editors abolition, Activism, black protest, boycott, education, reparations, Resistance, strike

This abridged document has been edited for brevity. The full letter can be read here. To pledge your support for

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