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- actively studies "living history" through its diverse projects. The Malcolm X Project uses oral histories, audio and visual media to reconstruct the life of Malcolm X. The Africana Criminal Justice Project is devoted to issues related to the African-American experience of the penal system, and explores these issues through ethnographic and oral history research. From 1999 to 2012 CCBH chronicled its pursuit of weaving history into the fabric of our daily lives in our journal, Souls. now housed at Department of African-American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
- THE AMISTAD DIGITAL RESOURCE: As African Americans sought to forge themselves as a people in the leviathan of slavery, in the process expanding democracy for all Americans, the concept of freedom has been central to the struggle. In pursuit of freedom, African Americans have frequently differed in their views concerning timing, strategies, and tactics. At certain historical moments, some have placed more emphasis on racial assimilation within the existing social order, others have advocated the creation of separate institutions, and still others have insisted on changing the social and economic foundations of the society in which they found themselves. But within this rich diversity, the voices from the pages of black history have produced a common cry of freedom—a freedom to live and pursue their grandest hopes for themselves and their children, to serve others, and to build a nation dedicated to justice.
- THE MALCOLM X PROJECT: Since its inception in 2001, the Malcolm X Project at Columbia University has been concerned primarily with gathering and illumniating new research about El Hajj Malik el-Shabazz through two major initiatives: 1) the construction of a robust, web-based, mulitmedia version of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and 2) the research and development of the biography of Malcolm X written by Dr. Manning Marable, the project's late director. The first initiative was completed in June 2004 and has been used in a a variety of black studies courses. The research for the biography, entitled Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, was completed and published by Viking/Penguin in 2011.
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