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Remembering Hubert Harrison, the Father of Harlem Radicalism

April 27, 2021April 27, 2021 Jeffrey B. Perry anti-capitalism, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, social justice

Hubert Harrison (April 27, 1883-December 17, 1927) was a brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and radical political activist. Historian Joel A. Rogers, in

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‘Ten Days in Harlem’: An Interview with Historian Simon Hall

August 31, 2020September 7, 2020 Say Burgin African Diaspora, black internationalism, Cuba, Resistance

In today’s piece, blogger Say Burgin interviews historian Simon Hall, a former Fox International Fellow at Yale, is currently Professor of

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Educating Harlem: A New Book on Schooling and Resistance in New York

April 24, 2020April 24, 2020 AAIHS Editors education, Harlem, Resistance

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Harlem as Setting and Symbol

June 6, 2019June 16, 2019 LaShawn Harris Activism, black politics, culture, gentrification, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance

Examining Harlem’s long career as “setting and symbol” of African American and Diasporic life and culture, Race Capital?: Harlem as Setting

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Alain Locke: Father of the Harlem Renaissance

November 6, 2018November 11, 2018 Anastasia Curwood Harlem, Harlem Renaissance

Sometime during the Great Depression, a young working-class Black man acquired a 1925 first-edition copy of The New Negro: An

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