Keisha N. Blain - AAIHS

Why We Must Remember: Reflecting on the Charleston Massacre One Year Later

June 17, 2016June 16, 2016 Keisha N. Blain Charleston, Racial Violence, South Carolina, violence

On June 17, 2015, a white supremacist walked into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina,

Call for Submissions: Women, Gender, and Pan-Africanism

June 4, 2016June 3, 2016 Keisha N. Blain Black women, Gender, Pan-Africanism

For centuries, black men and women have struggled for economic, social, and cultural rights under the banner of Pan-Africanism—the political

“Africa for the Africans”: The Expanding Field of Global Garveyism

May 2, 2016May 2, 2016 Keisha N. Blain black nationalism, Garveyism, Pan-Africanism, Universal Negro Improvement Association

Recently, the Global Garveyism conference took place at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. Organized by Professors Adam Ewing (Virginia

Centering Black Women’s Ideas and Activism in Twentieth Century London

April 11, 2016April 11, 2016 Keisha N. Blain black feminism, black internationalism, black women's internationalism, London

In recent years, we have witnessed a significant growth in the literature on Black Britain. The works of Paul Gilroy,

Racial Violence and Black Nationalist Politics

March 4, 2016March 3, 2016 Keisha N. Blain black nationalism, Racial Violence, Universal Negro Improvement Association, West Africa

Someone recently asked me why the black women activists I study were so determined to leave the United States. It