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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,

Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States

September 10, 2024September 4, 2024 Michael Lawrence Dickinson Haiti, Haitian Revolution

“What happened in Haiti between 1791 and 1804 contradicted much of what happened elsewhere in the world before and since..But

Black Women’s Fiction and Medical Experimentation

September 9, 2024September 9, 2024 Norrell Edwards medical experimentation, race

The Covid-19 pandemic laid bare existing racial inequalities in our healthcare system. The magnified death toll for Black and Brown