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Black Student Activism and the Ivy League

September 10, 2019September 10, 2019 Jon Hale #AAIHSRoundtable, #UpendingTheIvoryTower, Activism, black politics, Black Power, black protest, education, race, Resistance

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Stefan M. Bradley’s Upending the Ivory

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How Black Activists Sought Healthcare Reform: A New Documentary

September 5, 2019September 16, 2019 Christopher Willoughby Activism, Black film, black intellectual history, black politics, capitalism, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, film, health, medicine

“The American Medical Association has never been a friend to us [African Americans],” explained the late Chicago physician Dr. Donald

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Freedom Without Citizenship, Reconciliation without Reparations

September 3, 2019August 30, 2019 Westenley Alcenat black politics, capitalism, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, economic justice, Jim Crow, race, Race and Economic History, racism, slavery, white supremacy

This post is part two of a two-part commentary/analysis on Black citizenship after Reconstruction. Read part one here: “Deferred Freedom

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“The Most Important Place in the World”: On Puerto Rico and the Freedom Struggle

August 2, 2019July 28, 2019 Dan Berger Activism, African Diaspora, black politics, black protest, Caribbean, colonialism, freedom, Politics, Puerto Rican history, Puerto Rico, Social Movements

Though the United States has colonized Puerto Rico since 1898, when the country took the island as booty in the

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To Exist is to Resist: A New Book on Black Feminism in Europe

July 26, 2019July 15, 2019 Tiffany Florvil African Diaspora, Black Europe, black feminism, black politics, Black women, 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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