Black Women, Public Housing, and Resistance
For as long as public housing has been described as a “failure,” lower-income Black women have been the face of
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Black Urban History
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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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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CFP: Public Housing in Black America
In 1910, Baltimore became the first city in America to legalize residential segregation when Mayor J. Barry Mahool signed a
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Why the New Great Migration Matters
In the recent documentary “South to Black Power,” Charles Blow reaffirms his previous call for a “Second Great Migration.” His
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