Olaudah Equiano’s Transnational Insights
Few figures of the eighteenth century have captured the attention of historians, literary critics, and scholars of Africana studies as
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Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez and the African American Community of New Orleans during the Civil War
Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez lived an extraordinary life. He traveled the world, earned two medical degrees, started two newspapers, and was an activist during
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Online Roundtable–Soyica Diggs Colbert’s ‘Radical Vision’
September 5-9, 2022 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Soyica Diggs Colbert’s Radical
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Myles Horton, Highlander, and the Beloved Community
On the night of March 29, 2019, an administrative building at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market,
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Book Club on Jean Casimir’s ‘The Haitians: A Decolonial History’
The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is co-sponsoring an upcoming book club on Jean Casimir’s The Haitians: A Decolonial
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