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Online Forum: The Russian Revolution and the African Diaspora

October 1, 2017October 5, 2017 AAIHS Editors Black October, Russia, Russian Revolution

Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on Black October: The Russian Revolution

Ethel Mae Matthews and the Emmaus House in Atlanta

September 11, 2017September 15, 2017 Tom Adam Davies Activism, Black Power, Black women, Deep South, housing

Fifty years ago, Emmaus House opened its doors for the first time. Located in Peoplestown, a deprived neighborhood southeast of

Unite the Right, Colin Kaepernick, and Social Media

September 8, 2017September 15, 2017 Azmar Williams social media, Social Movements, Virginia

On April 22, 1820, Thomas Jefferson captured the crux of America’s race problem in a letter to Maine politician John

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor speaking at TEDxBaltimore in January 2016. Photo: TEDxBaltimore/Flickr.

Neo-McCarthyism and the Radical Professor

July 22, 2017July 27, 2017 Russell Rickford academia, Activism, digital media, education, Resistance

It is never easy to be a critical intellectual in a bourgeois democracy—a society that professes egalitarian values while aggressively

The Criminalized Majority

July 21, 2017July 24, 2017 Guest Poster Activism, black politics, black radical tradition, mass incarceration, racism

by Dan Berger and David Stein “Everyone should go to jail, say, once every ten years,” opined novelist and poet