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On Richard Wright’s Hunger and Kiese Laymon’s Heavy

June 4, 2019June 3, 2019 Field Brown book review, Deep South, embodiment, food, literature, memoir, Mississippi, South

Richard Wright’s famous autobiography, Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth (1945) was originally titled American Hunger. However, the

Online Forum: What is African American Intellectual History?

June 4, 2019June 3, 2019 AAIHS Editors #RethinkingAAIH, black intellectual history, Black political thought, intellectual

June 10-14, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum titled “What is

Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: A New Book in Civil Rights History

May 31, 2019June 4, 2019 J. T. Roane black politics, black protest, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, economic justice, Jim Crow, labor, Resistance

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

Black Queer Theater as Love Praxis: An Interview with Jeremy O’Brian

May 28, 2019May 25, 2019 J. T. Roane art, Black church, black feminism, black politics, interview, LGBT, religion, theater

In today’s post, senior editor J.T. Roane interviews, Jeremy O’Brian who is currently a Teaching Fellow at The New School’s

Untangling Madam C.J. Walker’s Story

May 24, 2019May 24, 2019 A’Lelia Bundles #WalkerCentennial, Activism, black politics, Black women, Gender, Madam CJ Walker

*This post is part of our online forum on Madam C.J. Walker for the centennial anniversary of her death. As