
Writing on the Legacy of May Ayim
In her suicide note on August 9, 1996, Black German activist-intellectual May Ayim sadly wrote, “I have lived and experienced ...
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Tricksters, Biographies, and Two-Faced Archives
In 2015, precisely 31 years to the day of her death, blues and cabaret singer Alberta Hunter was inducted into ...
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Resurrecting Shirley Chisholm from Symbol to Life
Fifteen years ago, I decided to write a biography of a Black woman. My scholarly genealogy pushed me toward such ...
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Behind and Beyond Biography: Writing Black Women’s Lives and Thoughts
“I think of invention as a gift to the reader,” writer and professor Bridgett Davis said. The moment you put ...
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Online Forum–Black Women’s Biography
May 31, 2022 to June 7, 2022 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is hosting ...
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The Consequences of USCT Soldiering
Solomon Wilson, a Thirty-First United States Colored Infantry (USCI) soldier, died in a regimental hospital on August 6, 1864. An ...
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