Black Women Fighting Back: Philadelphia Style
Black women’s history is filled with examples of individual women—and the organizations they helped to create—fighting back against a host
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Featured Books
Weapons of the Furious: Vengeance Feminism as “Loving Correction”
Kali Nicole Gross’s Vengeance Feminism: The Power of Black Women’s Fury in Lawless Times opens with the story of how
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Online Roundtable–Kali Nicole Gross’s ‘Vengeance Feminism’
May 4–12, 2026 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Kali Nicole
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Ruby J. Gainer, Black Educators, and the Long-Brown Era
In today’s post, Ashley Everson, assistant professor of African American and Africana Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park and a
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Afterlives of the Plantation: An Interview with Jarvis C. McInnis
In today’s post, Dr. Robert Greene II, Former AAIHS President and Associate Professor of History at Claflin University, interviews Dr.
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