February, 2020 - AAIHS

An Open Letter to Netflix and the Producers and Directors of “Who Killed Malcolm X?”

February 24, 2020February 25, 2020 AAIHS Editors

We are writing to express our profound disappointment at the complete disregard of women activists and women scholars in the

Cedric J. Robinson: A New Book on Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, and Cultures of Resistance

February 21, 2020February 17, 2020 AAIHS Editors black radical tradition, Black radicalism

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

Black Banking and Women Financial Power Brokers

February 20, 2020February 16, 2020 Brandon K. Winford Black women, capitalism, Jim Crow, Race and Economic History, Racial Capitalism

In Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal, Shennette Garrett-Scott offers a compelling narrative that

On America

February 19, 2020February 16, 2020 Marquis Bey #OnSuite, Black political thought, black politics, black protest, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, Black radicalism, Gender, LGBT, race

*This post is part of contributor Marquis Bey’s On Suite series. “I love America more than any other country in this world,

Online Roundtable—A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s

February 18, 2020February 16, 2020 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #APoliticalEducation, Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, education, race

February 24–28, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online roundtable on Elizabeth Todd-Breland’s A Political