Black history - AAIHS

Black Women Have Shaped Politics in Boston for Centuries

Kim Janey will probably vacate her position as president of the Boston City Council to become the city’s acting mayor.

In late 1969, Fred Hampton issued a call to defund the police, if in different terms than those currently in

On Jan. 6, a mostly White mob attacked the nation’s Capitol in a violent attempt to overturn the election of

President Biden’s racial equity agenda, launched with executive actions taken to address systemic racism and inequality in America, promises to

Trite historical surveys of the Black experience in the United States will feature questions of identity politics (Combahee River Collective