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An Ode to Kente Epistemology: Theorizing Black Gay Life

May 18, 2023May 17, 2023 Kwame Edwin Otu #DiscoBallBetweenUs, black queer studies, Black Studies, Kente Clothe, methods

This post is part of our online roundtable on Jafari S. Allen’s There’s a Disco Ball Between Us. I enter Jafari

Online Roundtable–Jafari S. Allen’s ‘There’s a Disco Ball Between Us’

May 12, 2023May 11, 2023 AAIHS Editors #DiscoBallBetweenUs, #Roundtable, black queer studies, Black Studies, Jafari S. Allen, Queer Theory

May 15–22, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Jafari

Coke Money and Apartheid Divestment in U.S. Higher Education

May 10, 2023May 11, 2023 Amanda Joyce Hall Activism, Apartheid, Emory, South Africa, Student Movement

Philanthropic gifting to US higher education amounted to an astronomical $52.9 billion in 2021. Higher education has enjoyed a long

Reassessing African-European Encounters

April 20, 2023April 19, 2023 Nancy A. Andoh africa, African Diaspora, Afro-European Encounter, Black Atlantic, Black Europe, Political Thought, slavery

Herman L. Bennett’s African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic, is a prelude to an

Beyond Faiths and Race in Interfaith, Interracial Worship

April 12, 2023April 16, 2023 Dorsey Blake #HowardThurman, Christianity, Online Forum, religion

This post is part of our forum on Howard Thurman and the Civil Rights Movement. The movement of the Spirit of