How the 1969 Uprising Challenged Police Brutality in Las Vegas
This post is part of our forum on the Urban Rebellions of the 1960s On the evening of October 5,
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Black history
Online Forum-Urban Rebellions in the 1960s
October 14-17, 2024 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum that
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Black Women Enterprising Freedom in Colonial Santo Domingo
Black women have been “winning” for Black freedom since the sixteenth century. Groups of enslaved African and African-descendant women who
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Post-war Representations of British Caribbean Food Markets
The proverbial “you are what you eat” suggests that what someone consumes is indicative of their overall health and their
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Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States
“What happened in Haiti between 1791 and 1804 contradicted much of what happened elsewhere in the world before and since..But
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