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Black Archives Take Center Stage

July 13, 2020July 12, 2020 Say Burgin #AAIHSRoundtable, #RadicalBlackTheatre, archives, Black radicalism, Black women, methods, Performance, Resistance, theater

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with The Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Kate Dossett’s Radical Black Theatre in The

Anne Moody’s Coming of Age in Mississippi: Seeing Anne’s Struggles as Our Own

July 10, 2020July 5, 2020 Adele Norris black protest, blackness, Civil Rights Movement, youth

It’s been over 50 years since Anne Moody published Coming of Age in Mississippi in 1968. The autobiography chronicles Anne’s life

Loop/Lapse/Loss: Untimely Dispatches from a Sea of Fragments

July 9, 2020July 5, 2020 John Murillo III #NewBlackSurrealisms, blackness, police violence, policing, race, Racial Violence, racism, Sandra Bland, white supremacy

*This post is part of our New Black Surrealisms series organized by Tiffany E. Barber and Jerome Dent. I do not

“If They Take You In The Morning”: M4BL and the Palestine Justice Movement

July 8, 2020July 5, 2020 Taurean J. Webb black internationalism, black lives matter, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Palestine, police violence, Resistance

“Eyad was killed and he didn’t even know what his crime was….he was dreaming of becoming a chef’s assistant. He

Online Roundtable: Kate Dossett’s Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal

July 7, 2020July 10, 2020 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable

July 13-17 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with The Journal of Civil