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Situating Nigerian Women in Global Black Politics Discourse

September 17, 2024September 17, 2024 Adaugo Pamela Nwakanma #BlackWomensActivismInTheDiaspora, African Diaspora, Gender, Nigeria

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women’s Activism in the African Diaspora.” In 1929, before the wave

Remembering Victoria Santa Cruz: A Global Life

September 16, 2024October 25, 2024 Heidi Carolyn Feldman #BlackWomensActivismInTheDiaspora, Activism, African Diaspora, Black women

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women’s Activism in the African Diaspora.” “I was born Black, I

Online Forum-Black Women’s Activism in the African Diaspora

September 13, 2024September 11, 2024 AAIHS Editors #BlackWomensActivismInTheDiaspora, Activism, African Diaspora, Black women

September 16-23, 2024 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum considering the

Examining Identity in Louisiana’s 19th-Century Black Literature

September 12, 2024September 12, 2024 Tanguy GIL France, literature, Louisiana

Slave narratives were a central genre of African American literature in antebellum America. Still, some authors wrote fiction works, the

Eve Ewing, Ironheart, and Black Women’s Fiction

September 11, 2024August 24, 2024 Cindy N. Reed comic books, comics, Fiction

Contemporary Black women writers weave words into imaginary worlds to create fiction that defies neat, tidy genre distinctions. Comic books,