The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay: An Interview with Shanna G. Benjamin
In today’s post, Tyler D. Parry, the senior editor of Black Perspectives and Vice President of AAIHS, interviews Shanna G.
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Black Feminism
The Power of Black Motherhood during COVID-19 and the Uprisings
Editor’s note: This essay is part of our two-week blog series, featuring eight autoethnographies from students at Brooklyn College. Read
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Pauli Murray and the Need for Racial Reckoning
Confederate monuments are toppling across the nation following the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other African Americans.
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The Complexities of Black Feminism in Europe
Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande’s powerful anthology of writings by feminists of African descent, To Exist is to Resist: Black
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The Intersections of Blackness and Disability
I’m listening to jazz as I write this review. This was an intentional decision as I felt Therí Alyce Pickens’s
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