Activism - AAIHS

Shirley Graham Du Bois’s Biographical Writings

March 11, 2019August 12, 2022 Bettina Aptheker #ShirleyGrahamDuBois, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black women

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Shirley Graham Du Bois to recognize the anniversary of her passing in March 1977. The

An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology

March 6, 2019August 12, 2022 Don S. Polite, Jr. Activism, Jim Crow, Politics, race, religion

The Women’s March, led by women of color activists such as Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory, brought millions out to

Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement

March 5, 2019March 9, 2019 Edward Dunsworth Activism, black politics, Politics, Resistance, South

As the primary setting for slavery, sharecropping, and racialized Southern rural poverty, agriculture has–for good reason–been principally portrayed as a

Coming of Age Black and Queer in America: An Interview with Darnell Moore

March 4, 2019August 12, 2022 J. T. Roane #BlackLivesMatter, Black Queers, LGBT

In today’s post, Senior Editor J.T. Roane interviews Darnell L. Moore about his book No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of

Remembering Queen Mother Moore

March 1, 2019March 9, 2019 Shafeah M’Balia #QueenMotherMoore, Activism, African Diaspora, black feminism, black intellectual history, black nationalism, black protest, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Black women, Gender, Pan-Africanism, Politics

Today’s post is part of a week-long series featuring excerpts from a special issue on activist Queen Mother Audley Moore.