Black Studies - AAIHS

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

Mystic Stories From The Sketchbooks of Henry Ossawa Tanner

February 24, 2022February 23, 2022 Kwabena Slaughter black art, Christianity, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Storytelling, Writing

In addition to making paintings, Henry Ossawa Tanner also expressed his creativity by writing stories. Most of them sit silently

Deciphering the Ancestral Common Ground of Black Religion

February 17, 2022February 16, 2022 James Padilioni Jr #PewResearchForum, Black church, Black Religion, Islam, Prayer, Vodoo

*This post is part of our online forum with the Pew Research Center. Pew Research Center headlines herald, “generational patterns are changing,”