African diaspora - AAIHS

Mystic Stories From The Sketchbooks of Henry Ossawa Tanner, Part 2

For Part One from last week, click here. Since its publication in 1969, the biography written by Marcia M. Mathews

Today’s post features Robert Greene II’s, senior editor of Black Perspectives, interview of Robin Brooks on her new book, Class

In addition to making paintings, Henry Ossawa Tanner also expressed his creativity by writing stories. Most of them sit silently

Often the history of radical Black Christians seems to jump from Abolition to Civil Rights with very little in between.

From his academic career at the Hampton Institute (1872-1875) in Virginia until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington preached