Black history - AAIHS

Online Roundtable–Jafari S. Allen’s ‘There’s a Disco Ball Between Us’

May 12, 2023May 11, 2023 AAIHS Editors #DiscoBallBetweenUs, #Roundtable, black queer studies, Black Studies, Jafari S. Allen, Queer Theory

May 15–22, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Jafari

Black Women’s Resistance in Slave Rebellions

May 11, 2023May 9, 2023 Asia Thomas Uzomba Black women, Nat Turner, Slave Rebellion, slavery, Southampton Rebellion

Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner’s Community by Vanessa M. Holden, an associate professor of history,

CORE and the Early Civil Rights Movement in Los Angeles

May 9, 2023May 9, 2023 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. Activism, Civil Rights Movement

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was founded in the spring of 1942 in Chicago by James Farmer along with a racially diverse group

The Revolutionary Language of Black Abolitionists

May 8, 2023May 8, 2023 Frank Kalisik race, slavery

In the summer of 1854, a group of free Black men and women from across the United States met in

CFP: Hip Hop at 50

May 5, 2023May 4, 2023 AAIHS Editors #HipHop50, CFP, Gender, hip hop, music

The music journalist Sidney Shaw, the leading female character in the 2002 movie Brown Sugar, opened each of her interviews