Black Identity - AAIHS

Black Masculinity in Comic Books: An Interview with Jonathan Gayles

March 29, 2017April 1, 2017 Julian Chambliss #comicsandrace, comic books

This month, I interviewed Dr. Jonathan Gayles, Associate Professor of African-American Studies and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Learning at Georgia

Ramp Your Voice: An Interview with Vilissa Thompson

March 18, 2017April 3, 2018 Trimiko Melancon Activism, Black women, disability, diversity

This month I interviewed Vilissa Thompson about her work as the founder and CEO of Ramp Your Voice!, an organization that promotes

Zora Neale Hurston’s Radical Black Love

March 18, 2017March 21, 2017 Guest Poster Harlem Renaissance

by Ayesha Hardison and Randal Maurice Jelks When Zora Neale Hurston published Their Eyes Were Watching God in 1937, she

“Held in Trust by History:” The Intellectual Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr.

March 16, 2017March 18, 2017 Christopher Tinson Activism, black intellectual history, Historiography

On the morning of December 11, 2016, a notice in the Chicago area news read as follows: “Author Lerone Bennett

Race, Belonging, and Unconditional White Amnesty

March 15, 2017March 18, 2017 Christopher F. Petrella Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Donald Trump, Post-Civil War, reconstruction, white supremacy

At a raucous 2016 campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona, then-candidate Donald Trump outlined his plan to curb “illegal immigration” and