Activism - AAIHS

Online Forum–Black Buffalo

September 9, 2022September 8, 2022 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackBuffalo, black politics, black protest, Resistance, white supremacy

September 12-19, 2022 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online roundtable on the

Lorraine Hansberry’s Radicalism: An Interview with Soyica Diggs Colbert

September 5, 2022September 5, 2022 Julius B. Fleming, Jr. #AAIHSRoundtable, #RadicalVision, black intellectual history, Gender

This post is part of our online roundtable on Soyica Diggs Colbert’s Radical Vision In today’s post, Black Perspectives interviews Dr.

Sex Wars and the Consolidation of Police Power

August 17, 2022August 12, 2022 Jessica R. Pliley #StreetsBelongToUs, black feminism, carceral state, feminism, Police

This post is part of our online roundtable on Anne Gray Fischer’s The Streets Belong to Us As other writers in

Earl Anthony and the Black Panther Party

August 11, 2022August 11, 2022 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. black nationalism, Black Panthers, COINTELPRO, FBI, Maulana Karenga

The Black Panther Party was founded on October 15, 1966, with Earl Anthony joining the following April. His 1990 book,

Organizing for Reproductive Justice: An Interview with Barbara Smith

August 8, 2022August 1, 2022 Joseph R. Fitzgerald #ReproductiveRights, Activism, black feminism, black protest, Black radicalism, Black women, reproductive justice

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women and Reproductive Rights.” In today’s post, Barbara Smith is interviewed