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Ruminations on Juneteenth: Red as a Living Archive

June 22, 2021June 22, 2021 Endia Hayes Activism, African Diaspora, archives, Juneteenth, Resistance

(Black Unity Juneteenth Celebration, Eugene, Oregon, David Geitgey Sierralupe/flickr.com) On June

Juneteenth and American Democracy

June 21, 2021June 21, 2021 Alexandra E. Stern American Civil War, black lives matter, democracy, emancipation, holidays, Juneteenth

Online Roundtable: Quito Swan’s ‘Pauulu’s Diaspora’

June 21, 2021June 26, 2021 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #QuitoSwan, black intellectual history, black internationalism, black politics, Black radicalism, environmental justice

June 28th-July 2nd, 2021 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of

Postal Work and the Struggle for Black Freedom

June 18, 2021June 18, 2021 Rebecca Brenner Graham Activism, civil rights, Racial Violence, South, white supremacy

In late 1892, a railroad operator approached activist-journalist Ida B. Wells to inquire why the Black community of Memphis, Tennessee, had been

Gen Z Hip Hop, Rod Wave, and Black Masculinity

June 17, 2021June 17, 2021 Mickell Carter Activism, art, Gender, music, Resistance

Early this year, rapper Rod Wave’s album, Soul Fly, entered the music scene with a sharp analysis of contemporary Black manhood.