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Online Forum–Digital Black Atlantics

October 29, 2021October 28, 2021 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, black intellectual history, teaching

Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is pleased to announce the upcoming online forum on

Torpedoing Black Radicalism: The Case of Hugh Mulzac

October 28, 2021October 26, 2021 Tony Pecinovsky Alphaeus Hunton, Anti-Communism, Black Veterans, Communism, Hugh Mulzac, Labor Movement, Marian Anderson, McCarthyism, Socialism, WWII

It was late October 1942. The crew of the Liberty Ship Booker T. Washington had just “lashed down the last crate

Sounding South Asian, Sounding Black: The Sonic Politics of Appreciation or Appropriation

October 13, 2021October 12, 2021 Tao Leigh Goffe African Diaspora, black internationalism, Black Music, music, Performance

On the dance floor, we dance to the same beats per minute (BPM). The tempo that structures Black diasporic life

Jack Johnson and Africa: Boxing and Race in Colonial Africa

October 12, 2021October 11, 2021 Abraham Tapiwa Seda African Diaspora, black internationalism, Boxing, Gender, South Africa, sports, Zimbabwe

Jack Johnson never set foot in Africa, but the circulation of his images was heavily censored and sometimes prohibited in

Martin Luther King, Jr. and 1619

September 22, 2021September 22, 2021 Robert Greene II black protest, civil rights, race

Martin Luther King, Jr. being Interviewed, with Coretta Scott King next to him, October 20, 1965 (Wikimedia Commons) Throughout