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Online Roundtable—Black Madness :: Mad Blackness

March 3, 2020March 1, 2020 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackMadness, disability, Disability Studies, race

March 9–12, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online roundtable on Therí

On America

February 19, 2020February 16, 2020 Marquis Bey #OnSuite, Black political thought, black politics, black protest, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, Black radicalism, Gender, LGBT, race

*This post is part of contributor Marquis Bey’s On Suite series. “I love America more than any other country in this world,

On Nostalgia: HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ and Black Religion in Three Sacred Facts

February 10, 2020February 9, 2020 Rhon Manigault-Bryant #Watchmen, Black film, digital media, film, music, popular culture, religion

*This post is part of our online forum organized by Ahmad Greene-Hayes on HBO’s hit series Watchmen. Warning: This essay

On Sociality

January 22, 2020January 19, 2020 Marquis Bey #OnSuite, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, Gender, LGBT, sexuality, trans identity

*This post is part of contributor Marquis Bey’s On Suite series. Sociality, n. The state or quality of being sociable; (the enjoyment

Martin Luther King Jr. on Making America Great Again

January 20, 2020January 19, 2020 Justin Rose Activism, Civil Rights Movement, democracy, Martin Luther King Jr., Resistance

On February 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. stood before the congregation of Ebenezer Baptist Church, and preached his final