Activism - AAIHS

Using MLK to Quell Outrage Distorts His Legacy

Over the past week, numerous public officials—faced with disruptive protests around police brutality and racial inequality in the age of

Since last weekend, we’ve seen a nation-wide uprising in response to the police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd,

This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books, 2016). Today

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

In May 2020, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for her investigations of lynchings. She