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Black Banking and Women Financial Power Brokers

February 20, 2020February 16, 2020 Brandon K. Winford Black women, capitalism, Jim Crow, Race and Economic History, Racial Capitalism

In Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal, Shennette Garrett-Scott offers a compelling narrative that

On America

February 19, 2020February 16, 2020 Marquis Bey #OnSuite, Black political thought, black politics, black protest, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, Black radicalism, Gender, LGBT, race

*This post is part of contributor Marquis Bey’s On Suite series. “I love America more than any other country in this world,

Online Roundtable—A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s

February 18, 2020February 16, 2020 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #APoliticalEducation, Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, education, race

February 24–28, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online roundtable on Elizabeth Todd-Breland’s A Political

#AAIHS2020 Conference: The Black Radical Tradition

February 17, 2020February 16, 2020 Chris Cameron #AAIHS2020, black radical tradition

Next month, the African American Intellectual History Society will host its fifth annual conference at the University of Texas at

Making Black People Powerful: An Interview with Alicia Garza

February 17, 2020February 16, 2020 Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt Activism, black lives matter, black radical tradition, Black women

This post is part of our Black Organizing Today Series. This series, edited by Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt, consists of interviews