Black Studies

CFP: AAIHS 2023 Conference

May 20, 2022May 19, 2022 AAIHS Editors abolitionism, CFP, Environmental Racism, health, slavery

#AAIHS2023 The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)’s Eighth Annual Conference Conference Theme: “We Can’t Breathe”: Crisis, Catastrophe and Sustaining

Black Trans Feminism: Marquis Bey interviewed by Guy Emerson Mount

April 15, 2022April 14, 2022 Guy Emerson Mount abolition, black feminism, black radical tradition, Black Trans Feminism, feminism, interview

In this interview I speak with Marquis Bey about their new book Black Trans Feminism which takes a broadly abolitionist

Chicago’s Murals and Block Clubs

April 5, 2022April 4, 2022 E. James West art, black intellectual history

In the last installment of my series about race and DOCUMERICA, we were introduced to the work of Black photojournalist

Mystic Stories From The Sketchbooks of Henry Ossawa Tanner, Part 2

March 3, 2022March 2, 2022 Kwabena Slaughter black art, Christianity, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Storytelling, Writing

For Part One from last week, click here. Since its publication in 1969, the biography written by Marcia M. Mathews

Black Power Revisited: A CBFS Interview

February 25, 2022February 24, 2022 Erik Wallenberg black nationalism, Black Panthers, Black Power, masculinity, Republic of New Afrika

Conversations in BlackFreedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated by Jeanne