Tiana U. Wilson - AAIHS

Black Identity and the Power of Self-Naming

Black identity is the most political social identity used to identify people of African descent in the United States. The

It has been argued that the Communist Party, USA (CPUSA) neglected the struggle for African American equality during World War

“A Negro seaman whose ship was then in Boston Harbor was the first martyr in the cause of American independence,”

In the 1640s in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, Maria Portogoys, a “half free,” formerly enslaved woman, arranged that

The recent assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Möise and the power vacuum he left have deep roots in United States