Black Internationalism - AAIHS

The Nubian Body, African Aesthetics, and Cultural Imagination

February 15, 2018February 16, 2018 Janell Hobson africa, Afrofuturism, Black women, comic books, film, hip hop

The excitement over the much-anticipated African-themed superhero film, Black Panther, has reached fever pitch among African Americans and Black communities

An Internationalist Vision of Black History Month

February 13, 2018February 16, 2018 Annette Joseph-Gabriel black internationalism, Pan-Africanism

Black History Month has always had an international outlook. From its origins as Negro History Week, started in 1926 by

Radical Black Peace Activism in the Black Liberation Movement

February 12, 2018February 16, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly Anticolonialism, colonialism, imperialism, Soviet Union, Third World Women’s Alliance

On July 4, 1964, the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) wrote a letter to the Vietnamese Front of National Liberation congratulating

The Complicated History of Race and Mardi Gras

February 9, 2018February 13, 2018 Trimiko Melancon Louisiana, New Orleans, race

Another carnival season is underway. In New Orleans it can be a time of eager anticipation during the historic, festive

Reclaiming Martin Luther King Jr.’s Radical Vision

February 1, 2018February 4, 2018 Richard D. Benson II Activism, black intellectual history, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Pan-Africanism

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered an address, “Keep Moving from This Mountain,” at Spelman College’s annual Founders Day commemoration