December, 2022 - AAIHS

Billie Holiday and the Black Arts Movement

The Black Arts Movement (BAM) was a controversial, politically charged cultural uprising, which James Smethurst, in his eponymous study of

For nearly 50 years, commercial radio companies only employed white broadcasters to target information and entertainment to mainstream America. The

William Still, the leader of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society (PAS) Vigilance Committee, kept meticulous records on the hundreds of women

Some of America’s most celebrated Black intellectuals—Mary McLeod Bethune, W.E.B. DuBois, James Weldon Johnson, Ida B. Wells, Carter G. Woodson,

In the era of Black Lives Matter, Black political thought has acquired renewed interest and attention. As recurring incidents of