Black Political Thought - AAIHS

Making Black People Powerful: An Interview with Alicia Garza

February 17, 2020February 16, 2020 Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt Activism, black lives matter, black radical tradition, Black women

This post is part of our Black Organizing Today Series. This series, edited by Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt, consists of interviews

Everything Man: A New Book About Paul Robeson’s Radical Music Making

February 7, 2020February 2, 2020 AAIHS Editors Black radicalism, music, Paul Robeson, poetry

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

Online Forum: HBO’s Watchmen

February 4, 2020February 2, 2020 AAIHS Editors #Watchmen, black politics, comic books, comics, film, forum, popular culture, race, television

February 10–13, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on HBO’s hit series

Eldridge Cleaver and the Afterlives of 1968

February 3, 2020February 2, 2020 E. James West Black political thought, electoral politics, Politics, presidents

*Fifth and final instalment of E. James West’s article series on the 1968 Presidential campaign* In the November 7, 1968

Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: A New Book About Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life

January 24, 2020January 24, 2020 AAIHS Editors Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, Jim Crow, New Negro, Resistance, Washington DC, youth

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History