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Black Soldiers and the Civil War

April 8, 2021April 18, 2021 Aston Gonzalez Black women, race, Resistance, slavery

Shortly after the Emancipation Proclamation enabled African American men to enlist in the Union army in 1863, Alexander Thomas Augusta

Race, Digital Humanities, and New Technological Frontiers

March 30, 2021April 18, 2021 Jessica Parr Activism, Black women, race, racism

Readers of Black Perspectives are undoubtedly aware of conversations around tech, gender, and race. (And if you are unfamiliar with

The Life and Work of Mary Church Terrell

March 25, 2021April 18, 2021 Malaurie Pilatte Activism, black feminism, Black women, Jim Crow, Resistance

As many across the U.S. were gearing up last year to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the nineteenth amendment and

The Power of Dr. Gwendolyn Patton’s Autobiography

March 15, 2021March 15, 2021 Ashley Farmer Activism, Black Power, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Racial Violence, Resistance

In 1967, Gwen Patton was driving to Montgomery, Alabama when her car started to rattle and stutter. She pulled over

The American Dream and the Urban Crisis

March 8, 2021March 19, 2021 Julia Rabig #RaceForProfit, Black women, capitalism, civil rights, economic history, Gender, housing, race, racism, segregation, urban history

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ‘Race for Profit’ For decades, historians have chronicled manifestations of systemic