Black Women and the Power of Learning: An Interview with John Frederick Bell
In today’s post, Mickell Carter, an editorial assistant at Global Black Thought (the official journal of AAIHS), interviews John Frederick Bell
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Chicago
The Defender and Chicago’s Built Environment
In A House for the Struggle: The Black Press and the Built Environment in Chicago, author E. James West explores the
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Black Chicagoans, The Great Migration, and Nature
In Landscapes of Hope, author Brian McCammack brings together topics such as recreation, celebration, resistance, class conflict, protest, and activism.
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The Bud Billiken Parade
Over the last two installments of my series on race and DOCUMERICA, we’ve explored the contrasting visions of Black Chicago
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Tricksters, Biographies, and Two-Faced Archives
In 2015, precisely 31 years to the day of her death, blues and cabaret singer Alberta Hunter was inducted into
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