Black Political Thought - AAIHS

Nothing is Impossible: Black History and Black Futures as a Flag Falls

July 12, 2015July 12, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson #BlackLivesMatter, #CharlestonSyllabus, Activism, Ferguson, freedom, reconstruction, slavery, South Carolina

At dawn on June 27, 2015, Bree Newsome (with support from local activists) scaled the flag pole in front of

The Illusion of Afro-Asian Solidarity?: Situating the 1955 Bandung Conference

June 30, 2015June 7, 2020 Tamara Nopper #BlackAsianSolidarity, Afro-Asia

**This is the final installment of my series on Afro-Asia, examining the cultural and political exchanges and historical connections between people of

#BlackThoughtsMatter

June 28, 2015January 1, 2017 Guy Emerson Mount #BlackLivesMatter, #CharlestonSyllabus, Activism, capitalism, Chicago, Ferguson, W.E.B. Du Bois

As nine beautiful black minds are laid to rest and Confederate flags are symbolically ripped down across the nation, the

Andrew Johnson, “Our Best Friend”

June 25, 2015June 22, 2015 Christopher Bonner

“Mr. PRESIDENT: We have been appointed a committee by a public meeting of the colored people of Richmond, Va., to

Somebody Has to Pay: Audley Moore, Mother of the Reparations Movement

June 17, 2015January 4, 2018 Ashley Farmer

With Ta-Nehisi Coates’ celebrated article, “The Case for Reparations,” and the recent awarding of reparations to victims of police torture