Robert Smalls and Reconstruction Politics
Reconstruction politics shares a political lineage with the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. Both periods sought to fulfill the nation’s mandate
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Online Roundtable–Lorgia García Peña’s ‘Translating Blackness’
September 11, 2023 to September 15, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting
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Blog Announcements: Meet the Editing Team!
The editing team of Black Perspectives is excited to begin the next academic year! Thank you for supporting us over
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Philadelphia’s Fight Against Gun Violence, Poverty, and Crime
In 1969, the New York Times named Philadelphia the “gang capital” of America when the city had the highest rates
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W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War: An Interview with Chad L. Williams
This is an interview with Black Perspectives blogger Brandon James Render, an Assistant Professor in the History Department at the
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