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An Education in Politics

February 27, 2020February 23, 2020 Noliwe Rooks #AAIHSRoundtable, #APoliticalEducation, Activism, Black women, Chicago, education, education reform, student activism

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Elizabeth Todd-Breland’s A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago Since

Place in the African American Intellectual Tradition

June 12, 2019June 9, 2019 Celeste Day Moore #AAIHSRoundtable, #RethinkingAAIH, black intellectual history, Chicago, education, geography, race, racism, Resistance, urban history

*This post is part of our online forum titled “What is African American Intellectual History?“ In thinking about the contours

Occupied Territory: A New Book about Policing and Black Chicago

June 5, 2019June 3, 2019 J. T. Roane Chicago, police brutality, police violence, prisons, repression, Resistance

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

Black Design in Chicago: An Exhibit and Symposium

January 25, 2019January 29, 2019 Joshua Clark Davis art, Chicago, design, Public History

If Harlem was the capital of Black fine arts in the United States in the twentieth century, Chicago was the

Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago

September 13, 2018September 18, 2018 Teona Williams Activism, Chicago, environment, Great Migration, Migration

Towering skyscrapers dotting the Lake Michigan coastline, “snowy winds,” “blistering suns,” and roaring streets described what Richard Wright aptly called