Black Women Fighting Back: Philadelphia Style
Black women’s history is filled with examples of individual women—and the organizations they helped to create—fighting back against a host
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Activism
Online Roundtable–Kali Nicole Gross’s ‘Vengeance Feminism’
May 4–12, 2026 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Kali Nicole
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CFP: Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr. and the Black Intellectual Tradition
Call for Papers: Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. and the Black Intellectual Tradition Deadline: May 30, 2027 The recent passing of
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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
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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
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