Black Identity - AAIHS

Civil Rights Organizations, the Black Press, and Ethnic Nationalist Movements in Africa

As African societies began to break the shackles of colonial domination during the mid-twentieth century, African Americans looked to these

I will never forget the unnerving feeling that washed over me when I first saw Sandra Bland’s mug shot circulating

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

One hundred years ago this month, Marcus Mosiah Garvey and thirteen associates gathered in a Harlem basement to found the

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