In 1910, Baltimore became the first city in America to legalize residential segregation when Mayor J. Barry Mahool signed a ...

Okra. Chitterlings. Grits. Ham hocks. Gumbo. Black food traditions from Africa and throughout the diaspora from the 1500s to the ...

The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is pleased to announce the finalists for the seventh annual Pauli Murray Book ...

As we celebrate Black History Month, we rightly credit Carter G. Woodson as a pivotal figure who dedicated his life ...

Gregory Nobles’s new book, The Education of Betsey Stockton: An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom, is a tour de force ...

Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), invites blog posts for an online forum ...