2026 AAIHS Award Winners
*At the 11th annual meeting of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) in Pittsburgh, we honored the recipients of ...
Psychologist Mamie Phipps Clark and the Brown Decision
In today’s post, Ashley Everson, assistant professor of African American and Africana Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park and a ...
Pauli Murray, the Brown Decision, and the Struggle for Equal Rights
In today’s post, Ashley Everson, assistant professor of African American and Africana Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park and a ...
Ruby J. Gainer, Black Educators, and the Long-Brown Era
In today’s post, Ashley Everson, assistant professor of African American and Africana Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park and a ...
Black Women and the Brown Decision
Black American women such as Pauli Murray, Constance Baker Motley, Mamie Phipps Clark, and Ruby Gainer were the architects of ...
Remembering Rev. Jesse Jackson
The passing of the Reverend Jesse Jackson (1941-2026) leaves the world without one of its major remaining ties to the ...
