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Online Forum-Urban Rebellions in the 1960s

October 11, 2024October 11, 2024 AAIHS Editors black protest, Resistance, UrbanRebellions

October 14-17, 2024 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum that

Maulana Karenga, Operational Unity, and the Black Power Movement

October 9, 2024October 6, 2024 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. black intellectual history, Black Power, Politics

Maulana Karenga, founder and chair of the Organization Us (Us), developed the concept of operational unity during the Black Power Movement. Several

The Troubled History of Medical Harm to Black Women

October 8, 2024October 6, 2024 Savannah Flanagan Black women, medical racism, medicine, motherhood, slavery

In 1805, a Black woman known in the historical record as Pleasant, took a deep breath and pushed her son

Black Women Enterprising Freedom in Colonial Santo Domingo

October 7, 2024October 6, 2024 Sophia Monegro archives, Black women, Santo Domingo

Black women have been “winning” for Black freedom since the sixteenth century. Groups of enslaved African and African-descendant women who

A Life of Revolutionary Struggle: An Interview with Dr. Vicki Alexander

October 2, 2024October 2, 2024 Tiana U. Wilson black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Radicalism

In today’s post, Tiana U. Wilson, assistant professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, interviews Dr. Vicki Alexander on