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Biden Has a Unique Opportunity to Undo Years of Education Inequality

February 23, 2021February 21, 2021 Crystal R. Sanders

President Biden has pledged to combat racial inequality and to expand access and lower costs for higher education. These proposed

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Challenge to his Liberal Allies

February 22, 2021February 21, 2021 Jeanne Theoharis

“We do not need allies more devoted to order than to justice,” Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in the spring

Summer 2021 Editorial Internship at ‘Black Perspectives’

February 22, 2021February 21, 2021 AAIHS Editors

Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is currently accepting applications for our summer

Audre Lorde And I Were Once Enemies

February 16, 2021February 15, 2021 Kenyon Farrow #AudreLorde, Activism, black feminism, Gender, white supremacy

Audre Lorde and I were once mortal enemies. At least that’s the way it seemed. In late 2004, I wrote

Beyond Shorelines: Audre Lorde’s Queered Belonging

February 15, 2021February 14, 2021 Tiffany Florvil African Diaspora, Black Europe, Black German, black politics, Black Queers, Germany, LGBT, race

*This post is part of our online forum on the Life and Work of Audre Lorde Audre Lorde welcomed the opportunity