Black history - AAIHS

The Struggle for Voting Rights and the Poor People’s Campaign

October 26, 2018November 3, 2018 AAIHS Editors black protest, Black women, carceral state, Jim Crow, voting

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

Sexuality, History, and Britain’s Colonial Legacy

October 23, 2018November 5, 2018 Sasha Turner colonialism, Jamaica, Marriage, religion, white supremacy

A recent editorial letter in the Jamaica Gleaner condemning the newspaper’s feature of popular dance-hall artist, Beenie Man, his so-called Babymama,

History, Art, and Black Life in the United States

October 18, 2018November 3, 2018 Nathan Dize art, police brutality, police violence

On September 6, 2018, Amber Guyger killed Botham Shem Jean after breaking into his apartment, allegedly mistaking it for her

“Chocolate City, Chessboard City”: Black Vitality in Renaissance Seville

October 16, 2018October 17, 2018 Nicholas R. Jones African Diaspora, Black Europe, blackness, race

Seville, Spain at the height of the Renaissance bustled like a chocolate city–to borrow from Marcus Anthony Hunter and Zandria F. Robinson‘s masterful

The Complex Life of Writer Chester B. Himes

October 15, 2018October 17, 2018 Lavelle Porter archives, black intellectual history, Harlem Renaissance, literature, sexuality

The prologue to Lawrence P. Jackson’s biography of Chester Himes begins with the twenty-five-year-old Himes sitting at a typewriter in