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Rosa Parks on Police Brutality: The Speech We Never Heard

January 23, 2020January 23, 2020 Say Burgin Activism, black politics, black protest, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, police brutality, police violence

In 1965, Rosa Parks would have had a lot to say about police brutality. By then, she had left Alabama

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Charlotta Bass for Vice-President: America’s Two-Parties and the Black Vote

January 21, 2020August 19, 2020 Denise Lynn Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, Black women, capitalism, Communism, Politics, white supremacy

Social media has brought the culture wars to a larger audience and demonstrates how conservatives have constructed historical narratives to

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Martin Luther King Jr. on Making America Great Again

January 20, 2020January 19, 2020 Justin Rose Activism, Civil Rights Movement, democracy, Martin Luther King Jr., Resistance

On February 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. stood before the congregation of Ebenezer Baptist Church, and preached his final

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Mothers 4 Housing and the Legacy of Black Anti-Growth Politics

January 15, 2020February 23, 2020 J. T. Roane Activism, black politics, Black Power, black protest, Black radicalism, police brutality, Resistance

Yesterday at 6 a.m., deputies of the Oakland Police Department violently evicted an organized group of Black mothers, Moms 4

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Black Scholars Respond to Dr. Lorgia García Peña Tenure Denial at Harvard

December 12, 2019January 2, 2020 AAIHS Editors Activism, education

*The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) stands in solidarity with Dr. Lorgia García Peña, a Black Studies scholar who was recently

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