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Seeing May Ayim through Her Friends’ Eyes

June 13, 2022June 12, 2022 Tiffany Florvil black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black women

Black German poet and activist May Ayim would have turned sixty-two years old on May 3. She was born in

Writing on the Legacy of May Ayim

June 3, 2022June 2, 2022 Tiffany Florvil African Diaspora, Black Europe, Black German Movement, Germany, May Ayim, Transnational Feminism

In her suicide note on August 9, 1996, Black German activist-intellectual May Ayim sadly wrote, “I have lived and experienced

Resurrecting Shirley Chisholm from Symbol to Life

June 1, 2022May 31, 2022 Anastasia Curwood Congressional Black Cacus, Jesse Jackson, Politics, Shirley Chisholm, Sojourner Truth

Fifteen years ago, I decided to write a biography of a Black woman. My scholarly genealogy pushed me toward such

CFP: AAIHS 2023 Conference

May 20, 2022May 19, 2022 AAIHS Editors abolitionism, CFP, Environmental Racism, health, slavery

#AAIHS2023 The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)’s Eighth Annual Conference Conference Theme: “We Can’t Breathe”: Crisis, Catastrophe and Sustaining

The Fight for Black Freedom Transcends National Borders

March 17, 2022March 16, 2022 Shaun Armstead Dorthy Height, Marcus Garvey, Mary McLeod Bethune, National Council of Negro Women, UNIA

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