Celebrating Black Intellectual History–Then and Now
In “Don’t Cash Crop My Cornrows,” a video created for her high school history class that later went viral, Amandla
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historiography
Online Forum–The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me
March 19, 2024 to March 28, 2024 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS),
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The Times-Picayune’s Historical Use of the N-Word
The News Orleans daily newspaper the Times-Picayune, since its founding on January 25, 1837, and throughout 1914, when it merged
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The African American History Survey as an Intellectual Product
Countless Alabama school children take part in an annual fourth-grade field trip that includes tours of the Alabama State Capitol
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The Lexicon Origins of People of Color
The term “people of color” is in a strange place in its evolution as part of the American lexicon. The
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