Black history - AAIHS

A Reverence for Hope: On Struggle, Faith, and Persistence

“Poetry is not a luxury.” — Audre Lorde America horrifies me. Its savagery and vulgarity. Its appetite for racial terror.

This post is a condensed version of Davarian Baldwin‘s keynote address at the 2017 AAIHS conference at Vanderbilt University. ***

Julia Leakes yearned to be reunited with her family. In 1853, her two sisters showed up for sale along with

This month I interviewed Aleema Gray and Amelia Francis about their involvement with the Young Historians Project, a non-profit organization

by Django Paris & H. Samy Alim Across the centuries, countless philosophers and teachers—and legions of students—have asked that