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Why the New Great Migration Matters

January 8, 2024January 1, 2024 Beatrice J. Adams African Diaspora, Civil Rights Movement, Great Migration, Migration

In the recent documentary “South to Black Power,” Charles Blow reaffirms his previous call for a “Second Great Migration.” His

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The Best Black History Books of 2023

December 11, 2023December 7, 2023 AAIHS Editors aaihs

We asked editors and bloggers of Black Perspectives to select the best books published in 2023 on Black History, and they

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Black Women Public Intellectuals in U.S. History and Culture

December 1, 2023November 25, 2023 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, black women's intellectual history, Politics, Shirley Chisholm

The field of Black women’s intellectual history has experienced a renaissance in recent years. Works such as Toward an Intellectual

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Why Black People Believe the End is Near

October 31, 2023October 24, 2023 Benjamin Baker black intellectual history, racism, religion

Recently Pew Research Center released the results of a study on “How Religion Intersects with Americans’ Views on the Environment.” In it,

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Black Reconstruction in the Twenty-First Century

October 24, 2023October 18, 2023 Lacey P. Hunter 19th Century, American Civil War, American Democracy, citizenship, Civil Rights Movement, Voting Rights

  Peniel E. Joseph, The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Basic Books,

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